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Birthday Quotes, Sayings, Rhymes and Proverbs

Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow. - Unknown

Be kind to your kids, they'll be choosing your nursing home. - Unknown

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs

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. - Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun. - Bishop Hall

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. - Robert Bolt

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. - Kahlil Gibran

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

We are all born naked and screaming and if you're lucky that sort of thing won't stop there. - Unknown

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them. - Margaret Mitchell Gone with the wind

Nobility is not a birthright. It is defined by one's actions. - Robin Hood

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference. - Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

You were born an original. Don't die a copy. - John Mason

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. - Ralph Parlette

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home. - William Wordsworth

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