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 (1712-1778)
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle
stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our
death begun.
- Bishop Hall
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a
little. And every day he looks towards us and
muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the
next he will draw nigh.
- Robert Bolt
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase
our good deeds.
- Buddha
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of
bravery.
- Kahlil Gibran
The day which we fear as our last is but the
birthday of eternity.
- Seneca
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
We are all born naked and screaming and if you're
lucky that sort of thing won't stop there
- Unknown
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any
convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the wind
Nobility is not a birthright. It is defined by
one's actions.
- Robin Hood
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip!
- Unknown
There was a star danced, and under that was I
born.
- William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that
makes the difference.
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
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
(1820-1906)
American reformer
You were born an original. Don't die a copy.
- John Mason
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
Do not despair, every new born baby is a potential
prophet
- RD Laing
British Psychiatrist
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real
birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.
- Ralph Parlette
Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a
unique one.
- Frederick Leboyer
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
Birthdays are good for you. The more you have,
the longer you live
- Unknown
You're not getting older, you're getting better
- Unknown
The old believe everything; the middle-aged
suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
Middle age is when you've met so many people that
every new person you meet reminds you of someone
else.
- Ogden Nash
Youth has no age.
- Pablo Picasso
You know you are getting old when the candles cost
more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
For all the advances in medicine, there is still
no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than
I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth
of old age.
- French proverb
Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
