The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.H. V. ProchnowAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Birthdays: words of celebration
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.Billy MillsAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?Bobby KeltonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
May you live all the days of your life.Jonathan SwiftAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.Author UnknownTraditional attribution
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.Tom WilsonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.Chili DavisAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.John P. GrierAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.Tom StoppardAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Youth has no age.Pablo PicassoAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We grow too soon old and too late smart.Pennsylvania Dutch proverbTraditional attribution
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.Bob HopeAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.Jennifer YaneAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.Ellen GlasgowAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.Marie DresslerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
No wise man ever wished to be younger.Jonathan SwiftAttributed in the original GADEL collection
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.John GlennAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.Emily DickinsonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Original collection & source
Original title: Birthday Messages, Happy Birthday Greetings, Quotes, Sayings, and Wishes
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