Happy Birthday!

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Charles Schultz

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. - Anna Magnani

Happiness is good health and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one. - Frederick Leboyer

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

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend. - John Lyle

There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again. - Katherine Butler Hathaway

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it. - Golda Meir

It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. - Brigitte Bardot

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. - Jim Eason

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. - Unknown

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense. - Maya Angelou

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these. - Susan B. Anthony

To me, old age is always ten years older than I am. - John Burroughs

The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. - Plato

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Mark Twain

We grow too soon old and too late smart. - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. - Chinese proverb

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - Unknown

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx

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Happy Birthday, Maxine!
Also, Happy (belated) to:
Ellen - Amanda - Melanie - Stacie - and all you other wonderful birthday people out there!