Adventure: 31 of the Best Birthday Quotes

For my 31st birthday, I decided to assemble (with the help of great quotes.com) 31 of the Best Birthday Quotes: a little humor, a little wisdom... just a little something to keep us pleased about life... 

1. "Born on Monday, fair in face; born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; born on Wednesday, sour and sad; born on Thursday, merry and glad; born on Friday, worthily given; born on Saturday, work hard for you living; born on Sunday, you will never know want." : anonymous
2. "Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be" : Robert Browning

   

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3. "As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." : Norman Wisdom
4. "Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these." : Susan B. Anthony
5. "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." : Mark Twain
6. "At times is seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles--wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing." : Andre Gide
7. "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much." : George Harrison.
8. "One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell on that would tell anything." : Oscar Wilde
9. "Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs." : unknown
10. "I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel." : Henri Frederic Amiel
11. "Old age is not for sissies." : Malcolm Forbes
12. "My Birthday! What a different sound that word had in my youthful ears; and now each time the day comes round, less and less white its mark appears. 
13. "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 not go be, that for the rest of our 

    

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    sad wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably: Happy Birthday? No such thing." : Jerry Seinfeld
14. "Birthday is a salty word if you're not a fan of cake and ice cream" : Greg Evans
15. "There was a star danced, and under that was I born." William Shakespeare
16. "For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." : John Glenn
17. "May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine." : Frank Sinatra
18. "From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parent. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash." : Sophie Tucker
19. "Life is too short to be small." : Benjamin Disraeli
20. "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down." : T.S. Eliot
21. "Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go." : Brooks Atkinson
22. "The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." : Lucille Ball
23. "The old believe every thing; the middle aged suspect every thing; the young know every thing." Oscar Wilde
24. "Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." : Arthur Schopenhauer
25. "A man who view the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life." : Muhammad Ali
26. "At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment." : Benjamin Franklin
27. "At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage." : John Andrew
28. "No wise ever wished to be younger." : Jonathan Swift
29. "I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old." : Benjamin Franklin
30. If you survive long enough, you're revered--rather like an old building." : Katherine Hepburn
31. "It takes a long time to become young." : Pablo Picasso