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When somebody says to me-which they do like every 5 years- "How does it feel to be over the hill?" my response is, "I'm just heading up the mountain."
Sep 10, 2025
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
Its better to wear out than to rust out.
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
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.
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
We turn not older with years but newer every day.
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
May you live all the days of your life.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
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.
Time and tide wait for no man.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.