1. We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
2. There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
3. A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
4. Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear…
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~Martial
5. Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
6. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
7. 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. ~Dave Barry, “Your Disintegrating Body,” Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
8. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
9. Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
10. In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault,
11. The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
12. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
13. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
14. They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
15. We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,”Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
