General Cuteness

• "There are three hundred and sixty four days where you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents." -- Lewis Carroll
  
  The first hundred years are the hardest.
  
  It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  
  "You grow up the day you have your first good laugh -- at yourself." -- Ethel Barrymore
  
  Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
  
  

Aging

• Age is a number, and mine (yours) is unlisted.
  
  A good friend remembers your birthday and forgets your age.
  
  First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to zip up your fly, then you forget to unzip your fly.
  
  Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
  
  "A man of 40 today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing and a general sense of giddiness whenever the rent is brought up. Forty is life's Golden Age." -- Robert Benchley
  
  

Over the Hill

• "After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else." -- Lowell Thomas
  
  "I didn't get old on purpose; it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you." -- Andy Rooney
  
  "Middle age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms." -- Georges Clemenceau
  
  "You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." -- Bob Hope
  
  Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
  
  

Inspirational

• A birthday is just the beginning of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
  
  Your birthday is a time to celebrate the gift of you to the world.
  
  "What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it." -- Brigitte Bardot