What to Write in Birthday Cards

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Welcome to What to Write in Birthday cards. We got funny ones, poignant and thought provoking ones..oh and funny ones as well as intellectual ones that are funny

Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend them wisely.

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Happy Birthday. My thoughts are free to go anywhere, but it's surprising how often they head in your direction.

I have lots of birthday verses and poems on this website but this web page concentrates on one-liners, the things you might want to hand-write, particularly for the special milestone birthdays..30th, 40th, 50th, 60th. That's not to say that I haven't written poems. I have, based on pithy and inspirational quotes so that they become unique and appropriate for birthday messages. I hope you find something useful here, and if not, go to my other pages of birthday card messages entitled
Unique Birthday Wishes
and
Free Birthday Sayings

  Here’s a tip for you on your birthday. To prevent sagging just eat till the wrinkles fill out.

At another year
You'd probably not boggle
But, if you're like me, when you jog
You joggle.

Based on an Ogden Nash poem

On your birthday, I don't wish you to be on top of the World.
Coz, frankly, it's a dismal spot in Greenland somewhere
Happy birthday, right here

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All the best birthday wishes
Come with hugs and smacky kisses

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It’s great that, at your age, you still follow fashion. But face it, you’re never going to catch up.

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Don't you be eating health foods
At your age you need all the preservatives you can get

Don't mind the gray in your hair
Just think of all the fun you had puttin' it there

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

When we're together or when we're apart, you're first in my thoughts and first in my heart. Have a lovely birthday

When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me! Meantime, have a smashin' birthday

I expect your memory’s not as sharp as it used to be. Also, I suspect your memory's not as sharp as it used to be.

What to Write in Birthday Cards?
Here's more funny stuff

Happy Birthday. Hope you have a good 'un.

What to Write in Birthday Cards? Funny, poignant, thoughtful

May the bird of paradise fly up your nose
May an elephant caress you with his toes

As old Bill Shakespeare said of someone your age
"You've been blasted with antiquity"
OK, it's an insult but hey, it's by the Bard

I expect you’re like me these days... about half the stuff in your shopping cart says, "For fast relief."

Happy Birthday and remember: The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Happy Birthday and remember, as the Chinese say: You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair (added extra) Remember hair!

Happy Birthday and remember: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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Happy Birthday and remember: Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending

  Despite your advancing years you’ve still got it, but face it, nobody wants to see it.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Happy Birthday and remember: The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.

     On your birthday, don't think of it as getting hot flashes. Think of it as your inner child playing with matches.

Happy Birthday and remember: The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

Happy Birthday and remember: Even if you are on the right track, you'll still get run over if you just sit there.

Happy Birthday and remember: If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way

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You may be very very old but you can still have the body of a 21 year old - as long as you buy him a few drinks first.  

    On your birthday have you considered that you might have reached your sexpiration date.

  The good news is that even as we get older, guys still look at our boobs.  The bad news is they have to squat down first.

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Happy Birthday: May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.

Irish Blessing

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May you live as long as you want to,  
And want to as long as you live. 
May you forgive me for the present 
Or the money I didn’t give 

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Here’s your birthday message
 It may surprise yer 
You’re another year older 
Yet not a jot wiser

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A professor spoke to me
 In animated tones. 
His team of scientists want to  
Carbon date your bones
  Let them, you’ve lied so long about your age 
You could do with a refresher 
Have a great birthday

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Another birthday milestone?  
But I’m wondering which? 
Never mind, take it like a woman  
Just eat chocolate and bitch

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Old age is like (a) (your) cat 
Against which you must brace 
One morning you wake up  
And it’s all over your face.

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At Middle Age you’ll have symptoms 
Where you once had emotions 
Stock up well on anti wrinkle 
Creams, pills and lotions

 And today, stiff drinks 
Happy Birthday 

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Youth is a disease  
From which we all recover 
From today it’s onwards and upwards 
With the wisdom you’ll discover 

Party hearty today 
Get wise tomorrow 

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You know you're getting old  when the only thing you want for your birthday is not to be reminded of it.
 Doh! Trust me eh?
 What am I like?

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To know how to grow old  is the master work of wisdom,  and one of the most difficult chapters  in the great art of living

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29 until further notice?

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Just heard how old you are. 
I'm so, so sorry.

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If you scored points for having birthdays,  
You'd be winning, honey
 You’re at the age where sarcastic friends
 Are better than gifts or money
 I do hope!

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Laughter lines you say?  
Well something must have been hilarious.

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How many F's in "present"?  
That's right, No F'in present.

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With age comes wisdom 
They do surmise 
And goodness knows 
You’re very wise

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Here’s a birthday message 
To take to heart 
We grow too soon old
 And too late smart

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Here’s your (56th) birthday message 
From me, as usual lacking tact
 Life is a moderately good play  
With a badly written third act.

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(Men)(women) like (Women)(men)  
Who’ve got some sense 
So as you pass forty
 Drop pretense 

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

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Said the wise Lucy Larcom 
Or was she being dumb? 
Whatever with the past has gone,
 The best is yet to come. 

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Your birthday is a feather in the broad wing of time. 
I knew you'd want to know that on a day like this

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You are never too old to set another goal  
Or to dream a new dream 
But today concentrate on consuming 
Alcohol and things lashed with cream

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When you're young anything goes. 
When you're old, everything goes.

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Here’s a birthday wish
 From the wisdom shelf 
I’ll lead you not into temptation
 You can find it very well yourself

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

help to write right.. ©V4C ..in birthday cards

  On your birthday you can run but you can't hide 
You are another year older

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When you look in the mirror,  
You don't see wrinkles, it’s true 
But that’s only because 
Your eyesight’s going too.

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You think you're old?
 It's not the years in your life that count
It's the life in your years. 
Abraham Lincoln said that 
I heard him 
Happy Birthday young 'un

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Don't worry about avoiding temptation.
As you get older it will avoid you.

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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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I do hope you consider my gift useful
Today on your 40th birth day
Be sure to read carefully
What the can has to say

Stops squeaks and leaks
And loosens stiff bits
Removes stickiness
And lubes your pits

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Middle Age is when your former class mates  
Are so decrepit and frail 
In recognising how young you’ve remained 
They oh so miserably fail  

Happy Birthday. Hope you have a good 'un.

What to Write in Funny Birthday Cards?

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Happy Birthday and remember: Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending

   
Young at heart. 
Slightly older in other places.

Happy Birthday. Hope you have a good 'un.

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Happy Birthday and remember: The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A professor spoke to me
 In animated tones. 
His team of scientists want to  
Carbon date your bones
  Let them, you’ve lied so long about your age 
You could do with a refresher 
Have a great birthday

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help to write right.. © V4C    ..in birthday cards

  I was trying to think of something, 
Don’t think me unkind, 
To get you for your birthday. 
But nothing came to mind

So here’s a birthday thought 
To get you over being upset 
The best birthdays of all are those 
That haven’t arrived as yet.

Happy Birthday. Hope you have a good 'un.

What to Write Poignant in Birthday Cards?

What to Write Witty in Birthday Cards?  

You're at an age when you've finally  
Got your head together  
But your body's falling apart 
And feeling under the weather

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Life ain’t easy 
Said a wise old sage
 The only thing we get without effort
 Is reaching old age.

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Old Age, for all medical advances,
 Comes at a bad time, for sure 
And for the common birthday,
 There’s still no known cure

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Another year older 
Feeling a stronger, wiser dude 
Sexier, inclined to dream 
And prone to self delude

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

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Birthdays tell us
To eat more cakes 
It’s for you, another year,
And another place....that aches.

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Wrinkles merely indicate
 Where smiles have been 
That you’ve had a smiley life 
Can be oh so clearly seen  

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Time and Tide wait for no man,  
Said a wise old sage 
But time always stands still  
For a woman of your age

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We could correct all our mistakes. 
By a wise man I was told
 If we could be twice young 
And, of course, twice old   

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The people who have more birthdays
Live so much longer, true. 
Therefore it shows that statistically, 
Birthdays are good for you. 

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

write right.. © V4C    ..in birthday cards   

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