Free Birthday Sayings

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Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.

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Looking fifty is great – if you’re sixty.

If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.

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As long as there are birthday gifts, I don’t mind celebrating my birthdays everyday

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Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world

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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity
There's a comforting thought on your (60th) birthday

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When bits start to sag and move south
  It's just your age, don't be sad
  Just stand on your head
  They don’t then look so bad
Happy Birthday

Jon Bratton 2011

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Free Birthday Sayings for use in a birthday card or speech or gift tag or sms text message to wish happy birthday to a friend or a relative or co worker. These are free for you to use for non commercial purposes

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. Emily Dickinson

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Happy Birthday, you're not getting older you're just a little closer to death.

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Birthdays are like buses, never the number you want.

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Birthdays are like boogers, the more you have the harder it is to breathe.

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A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

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Money's tight
Times are hard
Here's your friggin birthday card

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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

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You are only as old as you act.

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So many candles... so little cake.

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Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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You are the oldest you have ever been, but you are the youngest you will ever be again.

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Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.

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Age is just a number. Best not tell anyone which one.

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Don't take life too seriously, it is not permanent

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Where we all wish to be younger, there is a saying “No wise man ever wished to be younger.”

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Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

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To me, old age is always 20 years older than I am.

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Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost disappear entirely at midday.
 

Thomas Arnold

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You don't have to grow up,
You didn't, you're still like a kid
You don't have to grow old,
Just coz your age number just did
Have a Happy Birthday, kid

Jon Bratton 2012

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You're too young
To be this old! 

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By the time you are 80, you have learned everything. You only have to remember it.

 George Burns

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You're not old.
You're just chronologically gifted.

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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid that I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
 

Emily Carr

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With age, you've acquired wrinkles
And you've also gained weight
Fortunately, you're now blessed with poor eyesight
Isn't God great!

Happy Birthday

Jon Bratton 2012

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Some say that a birthday is a great time to look back at the past year. Others say a birthday is a good time to think about what lies ahead. I say "cut the cake" and let's eat.

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You are as hot as all those candles on your birthday cake.
And that makes you verrrry hot
Hot, but old
Not!!

Jon Bratton 2012

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Dreams keep us young,
That's how to me its seeming
You still think you're young,
And you're definitely dreaming.

Jon Bratton 2012

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On your birthday it seems you're ageing
That's stuff and nonsense needing correction
You're not getting older.
You just have a wrinkles collection 

Jon Bratton 2012

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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with the mediocrity of success.  

Francis Bacon

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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture: survival.
 

Luis Bunuel

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Life comes one day at a time.
Make today special.

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Pope Paul VI said "In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long."

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The great comfort you can draw from your current age is that you are now too old to die young

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You’re not getting older. You’re just collecting wrinkles!

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You know you're old when "getting a little action" means your prune juice is working! 

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You’re too young to be this old!

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Despite the fact that you would rather not have to get over having a good time, your XYth birthday is no time to be wimpish.
 Gird up your loins and party hearty

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 You know you're old...I've seen you getting the same sensation from a rocking chair as you once got from a roller coaster. 

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I’m not going to make any age related jokes because I genuinely feel bad about how old you are.

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You're not old, today on your XZth birthday.  Mind you, you've been young an awfully long time! 

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Old age ain't no place for sissies.  So be brave today and celebrate with gusto  

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When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are So on your (XXth) birthday let me tell you this, old chap I saw you the other day and I couldn’t help noticing how young you’re looking

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Don't get grumpy
 As your teeth want to fall out,
this is no time to be biting

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Here's a birthday thought for you 
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age
 So, make whoopee, today

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Don't let ageing get you down. It's too hard to get back up

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On your birthday act like you believe in YOHO...
You're Only Here Once

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It's your birthday so go wild 
Don't floss before bedtime!!

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Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the hell happened.

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Enjoy this brief interval between birth and death
 Particularly today 
Happy Birthday

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Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?

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I doubt wrinkled was not one of the things you wanted to be when you grew up! 

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The secret to staying young is to find an age you really like and stick with it. 

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The older you get, the better you used to be.

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You know you are getting old  when you tend to repeat yourself.  
You know you are getting old  when you tend to repeat yourself. 

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You can still do everything now that you did at 20, but now subject to your doctor's permission.

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Your thoughtfulness  and kindness  have oft been a source of  encouragement and inspiration  
Happy Birthday my very dear friend   

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The secret of staying young is to live honestly and eat slowly.
Oh yes, and most importantly, lie about your age.

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Wishing you a year filled with the same joy you bring to others

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Hi ho, Hi ho, it's over the hill you go! 
See you on the other side...of the hill
 Happy Birthday, fellow over-the-hiller

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Happy (XXth) anniversary of your 21st Birthday.

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At your age now, if it doesn't hurt, it probably doesn't work.
 Somebody less thoughtful than me might today say that to you
 But I wouldn't 
Even if true

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Like a fine wine, you improve each year.

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  Candles, cake, and presents too 
Best wishes to the Birthday Boy (Girl)...
that's you

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May this year be your best ever.

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For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
 So have an uncommonly great one

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You have everything now you had twenty years ago — except now, I'm guessing, based on my personal experience it’s all lower, more creased, more floppy, less efficient, hairier.
 Oh but, your experience, judgement, philosophical outlook and wisdom are flourishing 
Your birthday...a day for rejoicing

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May your life  be filled with  wonderful memories,  beautiful dreams  and happiness all throughout this your (XXth) year on this flawed but wonderful planet
 Happy Birthday

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You're not (XX); you're eighteen with (YY) years of experience.

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A true friend remembers your (43rd) birthday, but not your age... ...

Doh!!

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Forget about the past, you can't change it. 
Forget about the future, you can't predict it. 
Forget about the present, I didn't get you one.

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On your birthday, let me wish you plenty of joy, 
I know you're too old, but I still bought you a toy 
If you look outside you'll see a brand new Range Rover
 And you're back in the room, dream over

Jon Bratton 2012

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Birthday Card Messages

Both are aged to perfection, 
You, and a fine Bordeaux.
  Both are full bodied 
Both are best enjoyed slow 
Happy Birthday, my love

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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most, live the longest.

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Your wild oats may have turned to porridge oats.
 But you're still the one I like to share my breakfast with

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If all the Birthday wishes  
You’re sent today come true  
You’ll have a year which overflows
  With happiness for you

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Happy Birthday to  the best friend in the world. 
You have given me many things , the most important being  the gift of your friendship.
 Once more,
Happy Birthday, dear friend

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Best birthday advice:
Telling a lie about your age
Is something you should never do
Except, of course, in an absolute emergency,
Like somebody asking "How old are you?"

Jon Bratton 2012

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The day you were born is a daily celebration.

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Caution! (XX) year old, cleverly disguised as an adult.

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Being perfect isn't very interesting. On the other hand, there's you.  Happy Birthday you

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You only have one birthday a year - so party hearty!

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To get over my overly stark honesty 
I really am trying 
Anyway, it's your birthday and you're not older. 
You're just another year closer to dying!

Jon Bratton 2012

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You're older today than yesterday but younger than tomorrow,

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I appreciate the difference  your friendship has  made in my life. 
Happy Birthday

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 May your heart be filled always  with the joys of simple things. 
T his…and more… is my Birthday wish for you.
 Happy Birthday

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I think you might be pushing your philosophy 
Of never telling yourself lies 
When all you do is walk up the stairs
  And you call that exercise.
  Happy Birthday

Jon Bratton 2012

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Happy Birthday  from the heart
   That’s the very place  all good wishes start

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It is often said that With Age Comes Wisdom
and you're One Of The Wisest People I Know!
 But then again Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
  Which is more appropriate to you?
You decide

Just like fine wine, you grow better with the years! Happy Birthday!

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Another birthday huh? Are you getting the idea that maybe your stuff may have strutted off without you

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Wishing you a year filled with the same joy you bring to others

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May today be filled with sunshine and smiles, laughter and love

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Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely... and since today is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun, enjoy the trip.

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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. Exactly how far along the process are you? Happy Birthday, Whatsyerface

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Over the Hill! Be sure to enjoy this year as much as possible, because next year when another birthday comes, you'll be better and older than ever!!!

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Can't remember how old you are  
Or how long since you danced a jig 
I'm no good with big numbers 
And oh boy, your age number is big

Jon Bratton 2010

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With every birthday you seem
 To grow more beautiful by the day,
I just don't wear my glasses
 It helps the process along its way

Jon Bratton 2008

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... 
..and only one for birthday presents, you know.
 Its a glood plan but not
 If you want to keep your age low

Jon Bratton 2009 
Based on a quote by Lewis Carroll

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Don’t worry about avoiding temptation.
 We all grow older, it's true 
And you've reached the age 
When it will definitely now avoid you.

Jon Bratton 2012

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Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

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

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Benjamin Franklin,

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Cheers to the nations biggest secret, your true age. Happy birthday

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Health food is good
 But ain't there always an 'and yet' 
At your age, what you need 
Are all the preservatives you can get

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May you live to be a hundred and may the last voice you hear be mine. (originally said by Frank Sinatra)

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As William Shakespeare might have said of you 
Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly?
Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
That cheeky whatsit might have said it, but i wouldn't
Happy Birthday

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents and only one for birthday presents, you know."
This Lewis Carroll quotation is invaluable and is my birthday present to you

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