Another Set Of Birthday Quotations

by allinspiration.com

“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.”
– Susan B. Anthony

“Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
Birth, copulation, and death.
I’ve been born, and once is enough.”
– T.S. Eliot

“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.”
– Thomas Alva Edison

“I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet.”
– Thomas Hood

“My birthday!–what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.”
– Thomas Moore

“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
– Tom Wilson

“A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.”
– Unknown

“Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had, and what you’ve learned from them, and less to do with how many birthdays you’ve celebrated.”
– Unknown

“Here’s a posy of flowers, and a basket too,
With Birthday greetings all for you.”
– Unknown

“Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,
I never was so happy since the hour I was born.”
– Unknown

“You’re not getting older, you’re getting better.”
– Unknown

“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.”
– Virginia Woolf

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
– Voltaire

“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.”
– Voltaire

“Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”
– Voltaire

“Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
– Watterson

“From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.”
– William Butler Yeats

“How far that little candle throws his beams!”
– William Shakespeare

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye’d, Such seems your beauty still.”
– William Shakespeare

“What does every birthday end with? Y! All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.”
– William Shakespeare

“There was a star danced, and under that was I born.”
– William Shakespeare

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye’d,
Such seems your beauty still.”
– William Shakespeare

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.”
– William Wordsworth

“The first hundred years are the hardest.”
– Wilson Mizner

“On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful.”
– Zschokke

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