“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.”
Robert Lynd
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...”
Paul Simon
“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's notto be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.”
Helen Rowland
