Birthday Greeting

Birthdays are important milestones, a time to count our joys and forget our sorrows. Enjoy each birthday as a celebration of life. Make your birthday special by reflecting on each birthday greeting on this page.

• George Eliot
  How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
  
  
• William Shakespeare
  To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
  For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
  Such seems your beauty still.
  
  
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
  My candle burns at both ends;
  It will not last the night;
  But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-
  It gives a lovely light!
  
  
• Sir Seymour Hicks
  You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
  
  
• Brigitte Bardot
  What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
  
  
• Luther Dixon
  Sixteen candles make a lovely light
  But not as bright as your eyes tonight.
  
  
• Jim Bishop
  At nineteen, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.
  
  
• Anna Magnani
  Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
  
  
• R. C. Ferguson
  A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.
  
  
• Robert Southey
  Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
  
  
• Dorothy Thompson
  Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
  
  
• Wilson Mizner
  The first hundred years are the hardest.