Birthdays are a “holiday” of mixed emotions for some. On one had, it is an occasion to celebrate the day you were born and receive lots of love and well wishes from those you hold dear. On the other hand, it means you are one year older and for some that means more gray hair and wrinkles have accrued! However, life is a gift and it can only get better the more we experience it. Treat the special person having a birthday to a heartfelt card. We’ve put together some of our favorite birthday quotes to help you send the right message on the birthday card or birthday party invitations.
Birthday Quotes
“Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.”
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“It takes a long time to grow young.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
– Lucille Ball
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“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.”
– Robert Frost
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“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
– Frank Sinatra
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“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.”
– Unknown
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“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.”
– Father Larry Lorenzoni
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“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Jack Benny
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“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”
– Lucy Larcom
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“Eat some cake and have a ball, make this birthday the best of all”
-Anonymous
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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
– Georges Clemenceau
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“May you live to be a hundred years. With one extra year to repent.”
– Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
– Jean Paul Richter
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“The first hundred years are the hardest.”
– Wilson Mizner
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To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
– Bernard Baruch
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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
– Rudyard Kipling
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
– Sammy Hagar
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“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
– Voltaire
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Birthday Sayings & Sentiments
Stumped on what to say on the birthday card? Be inspired by these birthday card wording ideas.
Sending you countless wishes to make your birthday memorable.
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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
This is my gift to you, on your birthday and always.
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“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.”
– Lauren Hutton
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It’s your birthday! Eat, drink and be merry.
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Of laughter, joy and fun,
Surprises, love and happiness,
And when your birthday’s done,
As your birthdays come and go,
How very much you mean to me,
More than you can know.
By Joanna Fuchs
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That I really want to say
I’m very glad I know you;
I think of you each day.
All the pleasures it has in store,
And because I appreciate you,
I hope you have many more!