<= Previous | September Issues Index | Next =>
Your Quotes for 22 September 2005 - Birthdays

As you know, I frequently use a birthday as a key for a theme, or use the person's quotes for that day. But today, birthdays themselves are the theme. Three important birthdays inspire me thus: Bilbo Baggins in 1290 Shire Reckoning, his young cousin Frodo Baggins in 1368 SR, and my own daughter, Amelia, in 1978 on our calendar. (Well, Amelia, I bet you thought I forgot to get you a card, didn't you? Guess again, this is it!)

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
     - Herbert V. Prochnow, 1897 - 1998

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
     - John Glenn, Jr

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
     - Robert Lynd

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
     - Jean Paul Richter, 1763 - 1825

One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we're still alive?
     - Philip Larkin, 1922 - 1986

Would you like to see quotes like these in your mail tomorrow morning? Our 10,000 loyal subscribers hate to miss a day, perhaps you should sign up now! No cost or obligation, just be open to the enlightenment waiting for you among our 22,500+ quotes.