Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

~ Plautus

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There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

~ William Shakespeare

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"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One."

~ Lewis Carroll

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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents... and only one for birthday presents, you know.

~ Lewis Carroll

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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

~ Jean Paul Richter

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My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.

~ Christina Georgina Rossetti

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A man over nintey is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.

~ William Butler Yeats

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The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.

~ Marcus Cato

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May you live all the days of your life.

~ Jonathan Swift

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

~ Jonathan Swift

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A diplomat is a man
who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.

~ Robert Frost

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My Birthday! what a difference 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

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You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

~ Henry Ford

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Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

~ Plato

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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

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It takes a long time to grow young.

~ Pablo Picasso

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The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

~ Robert Orben

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Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.

~ Author Unknown

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The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

~ Oscar Wilde

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Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.

~ Robert Browning

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

~ Lucille Ball

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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

~ Jack Benny

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From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

~ Sophie Tucker

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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

~ H. V. Prochnow

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Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs

~ Author Unknown

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I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.

~ Author Unknown

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You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

~ Sir Seymour Hicks

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It is better to wear out than to rust out.

~ Bishop Richard Cumberland

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The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

~ Jonathon Swift

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

~ German Proverb

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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

~ English Proverb

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

~ French Proverb

Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight.

~ Luther Dixon

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Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.

~ Author Unknown

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Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too,
With birthday greetings all for you.
Happy Birthday!