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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

- Jean Paul Richter

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents... and only one for birthday presents, you know.

- Lewis Carroll

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

- Plato

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 Wolfe

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

- Mark Twain

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

- Robert Frost

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.

- John P. Grier

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

Call this an unfair generalization if you must, but old people are no good at everything.

- Moe, from the Simpsons

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Got an instant knockout with what Swift and Grier have said, but honestly they all sounded sweet! Now all I have to do is wait, until the product of waiting dawns upon me, and then I shall wait again for another year. Phew!

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