Happy, Funny Birthday Quotes
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"From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye." - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer. Received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - Oscar Wilde(1854–1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray
"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost (1874-1963). American poet admired for depictions of rural New England, American colloquial speech, and poems about ordinary people.
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents." - Lewis Carroll, (1832-1898) English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist. Author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. See also: Famous Quotes from Alice in Wonderland"All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778). French novelist, political writer and philosopher. Inspired the Romantic writers and the leaders of the French Revolution.
"Life begins on your 40th birthday - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times." - Helen
Rowland
"On our 21st birthday, we don't care what the world thinks of us; on our 30th, we worry about what it is thinking of us;
on our 40th, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all." -
Anonymous.
"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something." - Samuel Beckett, (1906-1989). Author and playwright. Won the Nobel Prize for Literature 1969. Best known for his plays, especially Waiting for Godot.
"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am." - Bernard Baruch (1870-1965), American financier and adviser to presidents.
"Through a dull tract of woe, of dread, The toiling year has pass'd and fled: And, lo! in sad and pensive strain, I sing my birthday date again." - George Crabbe (1754–1832), English poet.
"Good-morrow to the golden Morning! Good-morrow to the world's delight! I've come to bless thy life's beginning, That hath made my own so bright!" - Thomas Hood(1799–1845), English poet.
"Happy Birthday, Johnny, Live beyond your income, Travel for enjoyment, Follow your own nose." - W. H. Auden (1907–1973)
"I have always been intrigued at what went on in the world on my birthdays long before I was born." - Sir Alec Guiness
"I just never understood, how a man who died for good, could not have a day that would, be set aside for his recognition." - Stevie Wonder, Happy Birthday, song that helped inspire the creation of Martin Luther King day.
"I hope you come to find that which gives life a deep meaning for you … something worth living for, maybe even worth dying for … something that energizes you, enthuses you, enables you to keep moving ahead." - Ita Ford, letter to her niece on her sixteenth birthday.
"How swift have flown To me thy girlish times, a woman grown beneath my heedless eyes! in vain I rack My fancy to believe the almanac, that speaks thee twenty-one." Charles Lamb, To a Young Friend: On Her
21st Birthday.
"When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself." - F. Scott
Fitzgerald, in a letter to his daughter.
"One's 30th birthday and one's 60th are days that press their message home with iron hand. With his
70th milestone past, a man feels that his work is done, and dim voices call to him from across the Unseen. His work is done, and so illy, compared with what he had wished and expected! But the impressions made upon his heart by the day are no deeper than those his
30th birthday inspires. At thirty, youth, with all it palliates and excuses, is gone forever. The time for mere fooling is past; the young avoid you, or else look up to you and tempt you to grow reminiscent. You are a man and must give an account of yourself." - Elbert Hubbard
"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair." - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"If life really begins on your 40th birthday, it's because that's when women finally get it. The guts to take back their lives." - Laura Randolph.
"Love is lame when your 50th birthday is past." - Thomas Hardy
"Except you can wake on your 50th birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed
on your 5th birthday, “ye cannot see the Kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day one must be born again." - Dorothy L. Sayers,
from funny 50th birthday quotes.
"Be glad you're fifty—and that you got there while things were nice, in a world worth looking at twice. So here's wishing you many more years, but not all that many. Cheers!" Kingsley Amis, to
himself on his 50th birthday.
"It happens in America about eleven thousand times a day now, someone having
his 50th birthday, far outstripping
the casualty rate for hunting accidents and car wrecks combined." - Bill Geist.
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