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One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

One man in his time plays many parts.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.

On your birthday today, don't Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect As you've reached 60, you want to be happy, Trust me, you'll be depressed.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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.

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.

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

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

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.