Wednesday, March 28, 2007

sugar quoted

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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6 comments:

ianne said...

(croak) happy birthday jordie, (croak) happy birthday jordie (croak) happy birthday, (croak croak) happy birthday (croak) happy birthday to you (croak croak)

*kanta na xa ha

hehhehe

Bullfrog said...

thanks marianne.
climb mount fuji for me! :)

Anonymous said...

wow1 nice collections.. :-)

Bullfrog said...

yeah. I really had a hard time Googling them in the net. :)

*wink wink.

Dean said...

Hey, hey, belated happy birthday!

Bullfrog said...

Thanks sir Dean! Don't worry, you're still on time...

So "belated" is not yet the word. :)