Another Set Of Birthday Quotations

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“Life has got to be lived – that’s all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that ‘this, too, shall pass!’”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”
– Emily Dickinson

“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”
– English Proverb

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.”
– Etherl Barrymore

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.”
– Franklin P. Adams

“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
– Franz Kafka

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.”
– Fred Astaire

“Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.”
– Frederick Leboyer

“Keep true to the dream of thy youth.”
– Friedrich Von Schiller

“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”
– Gail Sheehy

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.”
– Garson

“How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!”
– George Eliot

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
– George Sand

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
– George Santayana

“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”
– Georges Clemenceau

“An old man loved is winter with flowers.”
– German Proverb

“We are always the same age inside.”
– Gertrude Stein

“Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”
– Goethe

“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.”
– Golda Meir

“Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn’t original sin. He’s born with the tragedy that he has to grow up…a lot of people don’t have the courage to do it.”
– Helen Hayes

“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Henry David Thorreau

“No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, – something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book.”
– Henry Ford

“The secret anniversaries of the heart.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“God loveth a cheerful giver.”
– Holy Bible

“Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.”
– J.P. Sears

“Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?”
– James Kenneth Stephen

“Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.”
– Jean de la Fontaine

“A birthday:—and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife—
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.”
– Jean Ingelow

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

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