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“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
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy”
Voltaire
“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.”
Richard Bach
“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”
Pope Paul VI
“35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
Oscar Wilde
“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'”
Sam Levenson
“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
Edward Young
“To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“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
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
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