Happy Birthday Quotes

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
- Jonathan Swift

Birthdays are just nature's way of telling us to eat more cake. - Anonymous

A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for. - Anonymous

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. - Thomas B. Aldrich

"After 30, a body has a mind of its own."
- Bette Midler

"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment."
- Ben Franklin

"It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else."
- Albert Schweitezer

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. - Jean Paul

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
- T. S. Eliot

"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. - Samuel Johnson

Think of birthdays this way: you're not getting older, you're getting wiser. - Anonymous

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
- Anonymous

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Unknown

I have nothing to give as a gift but I promise to always remember your birthday.
- Victor Ukegbu Ogbonnaya

"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age."
- Margaret Mead