(556 quotes found)
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.”
Benjamin Franklin
“For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.”
Stephen Wright
“Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.”
Victor Hugo
“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
“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
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”
John Glenn
“Life is too short to be small.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
George Harrison
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
