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

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

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

Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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

Be pleased to look forward, And pleased to look behind, Count today, your 40th, and each birthday With a grateful mind.

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.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

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.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

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'

Consider this on your birthday You've got life's struggle beaten For 60 years you've ate And avoided being eaten

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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?

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.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Don't be pessimistic Because, today, the sun hasn't shone It probably won't next year And you'll then be 61

Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50. Think of it as only 1 year older than 59 Go ahead, as it's your birthday Delusion, today, is just fine

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

During our journey there were two occasions that we celebrated by honoring someone's talent. Everyone is recognized by a special party, but it has nothing to do with age or birthdate - it is in recognition of uniqueness and contribution to life. They believe that the purpose for the passage of time is to allow a person to become better, wiser, to express more and more of one's beingness. So if you are a better person this year than last, and only you know that for certain, then you call for a party. When you say you are ready, everyone honors that.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

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.

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.