Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? - John Heywood
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. - Robert Lynd
The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. - H. V. Prochnow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. - Ellen Glasgow
I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet. - Thomas Hood
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Franz Kafka
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing,... - Andre Gide
My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me. - Christine Rossetti
"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One." - Lewis Carroll
I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few. - Anonymous
The secret to eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. - Margaret Mead
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. - William Shakespeare
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana
