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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.

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy. How are you dealing with your awful debility, lessened utility and loss of mobility?

Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you.

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

How young can you die of old age?

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.