Best 851 quotes in «birthday quotes» category

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.

Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For .............. you are treasured Today and all the while.

So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

The heart has no wrinkles.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

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