Quotes on Birthday

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

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

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!