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Quotations for Birthdays
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,...
~Thomas Hood, "To My Daughter, On Her Birthday"
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Quotations for Birthdays
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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
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
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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, www.robertbrault.com
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Quotation about love
There's no denying that the only real unhappiness in life is losing a man.... Death isn't nature's greatest mistake - falling in love is. If we didn't do that, all the misery in life would be cut right out of it. Oh my goodness, so would all the fun. So, what are you gonna do about it. ~When Ladies Meet, 1941 movie written by Rachel Crothers, John Meehan, Leon Gordon, S.K. Lauren, and Anita Loos, spoken by the character Bridgie Drake (not sure if this is also in the 1933 movie or 1932 play - anyone know?)
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Life can be hard but if you've got somebody to love — yeah! ~Terri Guillemets
Love is why I came here in the first place. ~John Denver
Your love has gone all through my body
like honey in water,
as a drug is mixed into spices,
as water is mingled with wine....
~Author Unknown
Love is metaphysical gravity. ~R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is my religion - I could die for it. ~John Keats
It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. ~Dan Greenburg
Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls. ~Terri Guillemets
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. ~Author Unknown
Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~Author Unknown
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~Author Unknown
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown
A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ~Henry Louis Mencken
Love knows no answer for it does not question. ~Silent Lotus
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~Author Unknown
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. ~Author Unknown
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. ~Author Unknown
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. ~Author Unknown
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. ~Author Unknown
There is a language of love, which is to say, a truth that does not tell all and a lie that does not deceive. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. ~Author Unknown
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~Julins Gordon
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time. ~D.H. Lawrence
Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be it in the garden, the nursery or the bedroom, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
I am so tired - so tired.
I see too many people,
Read too many books.
Do too many things.
I hate the theaters,
I hate my work,
I want you, - only you....
Come to me between the cool sheets
And let me burrow my head in your shoulder....
~Pauline Cohn, "Rest"
It's so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. ~Author Unknown
I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me. ~Amanda Bynes
Passion spins around love and I am dizzy around you always. ~Terri Guillemets
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. ~Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. ~Samuel Lover
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ~Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. ~Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. ~Thomas Moore
When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Love isn't blind, it's retarded. ~Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. ~Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. ~Miguel de Unamuno
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~Michel de Montaigne
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~Javan
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon (Thanks, David)
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. ~Francesca M. Cancian
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~Author Unknown
A heart that loves is always young. ~Greek Proverb
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi
It's hard to defeat a woman in love. ~Terri Guillemets
Falling in love is so hard on the knees. ~Aerosmith
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. ~Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. ~Terri Guillemets
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~G.K. Chesterton
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. ~George Bernard Shaw
The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas
[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ~Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally
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