Happy Birthday Quotes

"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

"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."
- John Glenn

"If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building."
- Katherine Hepburn

The more things change, the more they remain the same. - Alphonse Karr

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
- French proverb

"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

Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.
- Anonymous

"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
- William Shakespeare

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
- Franz Kafka

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

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. - Richard Bach

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

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

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."
- Euripides

"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

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
- Mark Twain

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