Birthday

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

The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive. – G.K. Chesterton, “Our Birthday,” 1935

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

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

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

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

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. – Dorothy Fulheim

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. – Author Unknown

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

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. – Larry Lorenzoni