"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age." - Margaret Mead "There was a star danced, and under that was I born." - William Shakespeare "For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." - John Glenn "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Fros "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be ...
