Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

birthday

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Let them eat cake.

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

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

I hate birthdays.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Being seventy is not a sin.

Love the giver more than the gift.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.