In a dream you are never eighty – Anne Sexton.

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs – Anon.

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late – Benjamin Franklin.

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life – Billy Mills.

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle – Bob Hope.

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed – Charles Schulz.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional – Chili Davis.

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier – Dan Bennett.

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.

The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once – E. Joseph Cossman.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children – George Bernard Shaw.

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much – George Harrison.

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

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time – Jean Paul Richter.

There is still no cure for the common birthday – John Glenn.

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

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow – Margaret Fuller.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift – Pierre Cornielle.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age – Robert Frost.

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet – Robert Orben.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters – Seneca.

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.

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

The first hundred years are the hardest – Wilson Mizner.