Birthday Quotes - Page 9
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.
'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'Infant Sorrow'
Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.266, Univ of California Press
Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.
'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139
I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.
Song: I Ain't As Good As I Once Was, Album: Honkytonk University, 2005
"The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.
Richard Sapir (1988). “Quest”, Onyx Books
Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”