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Source: The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

“As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.”

May Age Time Eternity Aging Winter Old Age Enjoyment Birthday Regions Concealed

Author:Jean Paul

“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”

“The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.”

People Littles Play Faces Fun Stars Special Effects Blow Birthday Cake Guests Props Explosives Special Effects Pranks Birthday Cake Guest Stars Visual Effects Trainees

Author:Catherine Bell

“What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.”

Want Country Age Earth Middle Century Ambition East Nuclear Bombs Birthday Middle East 21st Century Imperialism Gave Up 60th Birthday Nuclear Bomb

Author:Shimon Peres

“Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.”

Dream Young Support Proud Excited Birthday Mum Sentimental Being Famous Support Me 40th Birthday

Author:Adele

“This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.”

Ifs Want Years Age Able Past Sports Sides Known Birthday Swim Swimming Olympics Fence Looking Forward Age 30

Author:Michael Phelps

“It takes a long time to become young.”

Long Age Young Time Wise Youth Long Time Aging Birthday Young Age My Birthday Be Young Youth And Old Age Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday Young Birthday Birthday Greetings Youth Life Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Book:Picasso

Source: Picasso

“Youth has no age.”

Age Time Youth Birthday

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.”

Years Children Young Order Birthday

Author:Mary Pickford

“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”

“I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.”

People Giving Play Ice Birthday Cream Ice Cream Bangs Outfits Parlor Sundaes Kazoos

Author:Amy Poehler

“Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

Mind Form Common Education Learning Tree Birthday Graduation Bent Art Education Twigs Knowledge Education Education And Knowledge

Author:Alexander Pope

“To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.”

Giving Birthday

Author:Franka Potente

“Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!”

Feelings Birthday Feeling Great

Author:Colin Powell

“Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.”

Age Life Is Perfect Aging Spread Birthday Advertisements Disillusionment 50th Birthday Advertising Agencies Disillusioned Disillusion Perfect Life

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.”

“I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.”

Mother Three Hours Four Terrible Birthday Cake Cried

Author:Rachael Ray

“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.”

Writing Age Youth Listening Europe Birthday Classical Music Bengali

Author:Satyajit Ray

“Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.”

Should Said Age Funny Politics President Worry Judging Politician Birthday Patriotic Umpires Great Veterans Day

Author:Ronald Reagan

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.”

Knows Men Littles Matter Courses Ought Birthday Old Man Old Birthday

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.”

Inspirational Motivational Age Information Entertainment Birthday Information Age

Author:Tony Robbins

“It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Funny Like You Likes Birthday Honey Julia I Don't Like You

Author:Julia Roberts

“Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.”

I Can Stories Problem Light Age Funny Fall Quality Havens Balls Genre Birthday Abandoned Compelling Falling Down 60th Birthday

Author:Julia Roberts

“If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.”

Ifs Said Ends Would Be Age Earth Order Church Birth Letters Aging Caught Birthday Latter Caught Up Apostles 50th Birthday Latter Days Apostle Paul

Author:Pat Robertson

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”

Men Age Pleasure Misery Old Age Birthday Old Love 30th Birthday

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

Age Pain Death Time Pleasure Youth Aging Old Age Birthday Tyrants

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.”

Mind Age Faces Grows Birthday Defects 30th Birthday

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!”

Hell Fool Caught Birthday Celebration

Author:Norman Rockwell

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

Source: What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”

Men Needs Reason Born Education Birth Weak Aids Foolish Birthday Helpless Estates Birth Life Need Strength

Book:Emile

Source: Emile

“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”

Ifs Age Hours Pleasure Regret Birthday I Regret 60th Birthday

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.”

Men Love Age Lying Purpose Dark Following Beloved Birthday Priests Creeds Trusted Preaching Knights

Author:John Ruskin

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