Birthday

A birthday is an annual celebration of the date on which a person was born.

See also Growing old.

Quotes

 * All the world's a birthday cake, / So take a piece but not too much.
 * George Harrison lyric from the song It's All Too Much on the Yellow Submarine album (1969)
 * Birthdays weigh heavily on one's self-esteem. Early in the morning especially.
 * Erich Maria Remarque in Three Comrades, 1936

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 70.


 * A birthday:—and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife— A thoughtful day from dawn to close:  The middle day of human life.
 * Jean Ingelow, A Birthday Walk.


 * As this auspicious day began the race Of ev'ry virtue join'd with ev'ry grace; May you, who own them, welcome its return, Till excellence, like yours, again is born. The years we wish, will half your charms impair; The years we wish, the better half will spare; The victims of your eyes will bleed no more, But all the beauties of your mind adore.
 * Jeffrey, Miscellanies, To a Lady on her Birthday.


 * Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. Blest and distinguished days! which we should prize The first, the kindest bounty of the skies. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
 * Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IX, Epistle 53.


 * My birthday!—what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round,  Less and less white its mark appears.
 * Thomas Moore, My Birthday.


 * Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.
 * Lucy Larcom, (1824-1893).


 * Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
 * Alexander Pope, To Mrs. M. B, line 9.