Old age

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom.

When the passions have relaxed their hold,

you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
- Plato -

Birthdays yes in a general way

Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
- James Kenneth Stephen -

A diplomat is a man

A diplomat is a man who always remembers

a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

- Robert Frost -

First you forget names

First you forget names;

then you forget faces;

then you forget to zip up your fly;

and then you forget to unzip your fly.

- Branch Rickey -

We advance in years

We advance in years somewhat in the manner

of an invading army in a barren land;

the age that we have reached, as the saying goes,

we but hold with an outpost,

and still keep open communications with the

extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.

- Robert Louis Stevenson -

When I was younger

When I was younger, I could remember anything,

whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are

decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember

any but the things that never happened.

It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

- Mark Twain -

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollar

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for

the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five

dollars when you had hair.

- Sam Ewing -

Thanks to modern medical advances

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics,

nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people

in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

- Dave Barry -

time itself is like a spiral

Because time itself is like a spiral,

something special happens on your birthday each year:

The same energy that God invested in you at birth is

present once again.

- Menachem Mendel Schneerson -

Believing hear

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear…
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
- Martial -