Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional - - Wish You Happy Birthday: Beautiful Quotes, Cakes, Words, Cards and Gifts

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.     Author Unknown

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun.  Enjoy the trip.     Author Unknown

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

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

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.    Chili Davis

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

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

Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.  George Bernard Shaw

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.    Robert Brault

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.      Jerry M. Wright

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  Jean Paul Richter

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.    Plautus

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

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know.     Lewis Carroll

  A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.     Jean Paul Richter

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. George Harrison

Half Baked

On your birthday, it's time to reflect,
For the passing of time leads to change.
What once was important we leave;
Our priorities and goals rearrange.

It's official; you've lived one more year.
You're birthday gifted and caked,
But don't think you're fully mature,
'Cause you're really only half-baked!

 Joanna Fuchs