The Birthday - Birthday
cards for everyone
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Quotes and
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- “TO me, fair Friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eyed
Such seems your beauty still.”
- W. Shakespeare
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- PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
- Alexander Pope
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- Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words
- Titus Maccius Plautus
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- The day ..
For whose returns, and many, all these pray;
And so do I.
- Ben Jonson
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- “For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Morituri Salutamus,” 1875
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- “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
- Titus Maccius Plautus
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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 quotes (1861-65)
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- The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain
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- “The old
believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know
everything.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet,
Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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- A
birthday:--and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife--
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
- Jean Ingelow, A Birthday Walk
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- Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
- Samuel Ullman
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- And show me
your nest with the young ones in it,
I will not steal them away;
I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet--
I am seven time one to-day.
- Jean Ingelow, Songs of Seven -- Seven Times
One
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