Birthdays...

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers it! - Ellen Glasgow

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything. - Oscar Wilde

Age is a high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art. - Garson Kanin

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John Andrew Holmes

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing - Agatha Christie

Lead me not into temptation; I can find it myself. - Unknown

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs