Birthdays

(461 votes)   Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days -- whatever there may be for the dust -- the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(429 votes)   Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Jean Paul Richter
1763-1825, German Novelist

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(386 votes)   The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(252 votes)   I'm sorry you are wiser, I sorry you are taller; I liked you better foolish and I liked you better smaller.

Aline Murray Kilmer

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(243 votes)   To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Cliff Fadiman
American Writer

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(100 votes)   Birthday is a salty word if your not a fan of cake and ice cream.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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