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And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.

Robert Orben

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.

Michael Althsuler

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Jean Paul Richter

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Plautus

Birthdays? Yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?

James Kenneth Stephen

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

George Harrison

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

C. G. Jung

Numbers rule the universe.

Pythagoras

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

William Butler Yeats

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

Lewis Carroll

Old age: a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

Plato

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.

Marcus Cato

If I’d known I was going to live this long [100 years], I’d have taken better care of myself.

Ubie Blake

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.

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