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Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.

As it's your 50th birthday The very best of cheers to you Truthfully, I'm just being selfish Coz now I am so cheerful, too Happy, Cheerful Birthday

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

At my age flowers scare me.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day!

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying

Congratulations on turning 60 Now you can wear what you like No one cares, and more particularly You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'