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“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” ~ Father Larry Lorenzoni

“Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.” ~ Billy Mills

“Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.” ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by 9 o’clock.” ~ Ronald Reagan

“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

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

“Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.” ~ Don Marquis

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would ell one anything.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” ~ Seneca

“There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and ‘how well you look.’” ~ Nelson A Rockefeller

“It is always in season for old men to learn.” ~ Aeschylus

“May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift

“No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I've reached an age when I can't use my youth as an excuse for my ignorance any more.” ~ Janet Bonellie

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“It takes a long time to grow young.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” ~ Lucille Ball

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.” ~ Robert Frost

“Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.” ~ Stephen Wright

“Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.” ~ Richard Bach

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” ~ George Harrison

“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.” ~ Pope Paul VI

“There is still no cure for the common birthday.” ~ John Glenn

“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.” ~ Ogden Nash

“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Zero! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” ~ Seneca

“Life is too short to be small.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

“Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.” ~ Maurice Chevalier

“Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.” ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“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 to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.” ~ Jerry Seinfeld

“The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.” ~ E. Joseph Cossman

“I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” ~ Jean Paul Richter

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

“From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.” ~ William Butler Yeats

“There are 364 days when you might get un~birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know.” ~ Lewis Carroll

“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

“The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.” ~ Robert Orben

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.” ~ Robert Browning

“Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened.” ~ Cora Harvey Armstrong

“Getting old ain't for sissies.” ~ Betty Davis

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.” ~ Mark Twain

“I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.” ~ Phyllis Diller

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman'sbirthday but never remembers her age.” ~ Robert Frost

“You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.” ~ John P. Grier

“Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” ~ C.E.M. Joad

“Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.” ~ J.P. Sears

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.” ~ Tom Stoppard

“If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.” ~ Euripides

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.” ~ Anthony Powell

“Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.” ~ Moe, from the Simpsons

“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.” ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.” ~ Ben Franklin

“Live as long as you may. The first 20 years are the longest half of your life.” ~ Robert Southey

30th Birthday Quotes

“Everything I know I learned after I was 30.” ~ Georges Clemenceau

“Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.” ~ Robert Frost

“After 30, a body has a mind of its own.” ~ Bette Midler

“A man 30 years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.” ~ Lew Wallace

35th Birthday Quotes

“Thirty~five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.” ~ Caryn Leschen

“Thirty~five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained 35 for years.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Very few people do anything creative after the age of 35. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of 35.” ~ Joel Hildebrand

40th Birthday Quotes

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.” ~ Voltaire

“Life begins at 40.” ~ W. B. Pitkin

“This wine is 40 years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.” ~ Cicero

“Every man over 40 is a scoundrel.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Be wise with speed; A fool at 40 is a fool indeed.” ~ Edward Young

“Forty is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age.” ~ French Proverb

50th Birthday Quotes

“The years between 50 and 70 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

“Looking 50 is great ~ if you're 60.” ~ Joan Rivers

“At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.” ~ George Orwell

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.“ ~ Muhammad Ali

“You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.” ~ Henry Ford

60th Birthday Quotes

“A man of 60 has spent 20 years in bed and over three years in eating.” ~ Arnold Bennett

“Some people reach the age of 60 before others.” ~ Lord Hood

“One starts to get young at the age of 60 and then it is too late.” ~ Pablo Picasso

70th Birthday Quotes

“I have achieved my 70 years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. ... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.” ~ Mark Twain, at his 70th birthday dinner

“The first 40 years of our life give the text, the next 30 furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life has got to be lived, that's all there is to it. At 70, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that ‘this, too, shall pass!’” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

90th Birthday Quotes

“Oh, to be 70 again.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., upon seeing an attractive woman on his 90th birthday

100th Birthday Quotes

“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 to be 100, and may the last voice you hear be mine.” Frank Sinatra

• In the past year your hair will most likely have grown 12 cm and your nail about 4 cm.

• Your heart beats at a rate of around of 72 to 80 beats per minute - since your last birthday it will have beat about 42,075,900 times.

• You breath at a rate of about 30 breaths per minute so, since your last birthday you have taken approximately 15,768,000 breaths.

• The volume of blood in your body is approximately 5 litres. The heart pumps about 280 litres of blood around your body every hour - that’s 2,688,000 litres per year!

• The average garden snail (not one that has entered the Olympics 100 meters race) moves at around 0.03 mph. If one set out on your last birthday, and walked non-stop it would have traveled 263 miles. If you walked this distance non-stop you would complete it in around three days.

• Since your last birthday you will have had about 1,460 dreams.

• World population has grown by around 76,570,430 since your last birthday. In the time it takes you to read this another five babies will have been born.

• During the past year there have been more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world.

• The Earth is zooming around the sun at around 66,780 miles per hour! Since your last birthday the Earth has completed one journey around the sun travelling about 584,337,600 miles.

• If you counted 24 hours a day, you would be over 31,000 years old when you reach one trillion!

• It is thought that birthday celebrations originated in the Roman Empire. And they were largely due to the prominent religion at the time, Mithraism, which was later supplanted by Christianity.

• Although you might celebrate your birthday every year, your actual birthday only occurs once every 7 years! Not counting the leap years, the date you were born on moves each year to the following day of the week. This means your annual celebration is actually for your birth date - not your birthday - and in truth your birth day i.e. the actual day you were born on occurs only every 7 years!

• Children who are on the leap day of February 29th often celebrate their birthdays on March 1st.

• Germans take birthdays very seriously, sometimes receiving a half-day of vacation. The most common gifts among friends include flowers and wine.

• In England, when you reach 80, 90 or 100 years of age, you receive a telegram from the Queen.

• In India, black and white gift wrapping is considered unlucky.

• The French and Italian celebrate Name Days more so than birthdays.

• In Korea, the two most important birthdays are the 100th day and the 60th year.

• In the Islamic world, green is a good color to use for wrapping.

• A Golden Birthday happens only once in a person's lifetime. It happens when the person's age and the date of the day they were born is the same.

• More people celebrate their birthdays in August than in any other month (about 9% of all people). The two other months in which birthday rates are high is July and September.

• Close to two billion Birthday Cards are sent each year in the U.S. alone, accounting for nearly 58 percent of all cards sent.

• The world's largest birthday cake was created in 1989 for the 100th Birthday of the city of Fort Payne, Alabama. The cake weighed 128,238 pounds, 8 oz. and used 16,209 pounds of icing.

• A recent survey suggests that more people are born on October 5 in the United States than any other day. October 5 holds a not-so-surprising significance, as conception would have fallen on New Year's Eve.

• The least common birth date in the U.S. is May 22nd.

• The day of the week in which the most babies are born is Tuesday while Sunday is the lowest day.

• Anne Frank's world famous diary was given to her as a present for her 13th birthday.

• November 14th, the birthday of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, is celebrated as Children's Day in India in memory of his love of children.

• September 5th - the birthday of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former President of India and a great educationist, is celebrated as Teachers Day.

• The most famous rendition of "Happy Birthday" is when Marilyn Monroe sang to "Happy Birthday, Mr President" to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden on 19 May 1962.

• The Sultan of Brunei hosted the world's most expensive Birthday Party to celebrate his 50th Birthday on 13 July, 1996. The cost was a whopping US $27.2 million. Three concerts featuring Michael Jackson costs US $16 million of the total amounts.

• Paul McCartney's Birth Certificate was auctioned in March 1997, for US $84,146. It is believed to be the world's most expensive Birth Certificate.

• William Shakespeare's died on his 52nd birthday: 23 April 1616.