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Birthday Quotes

I never forget my wife's birthday. It's usually the day after she reminds me about it.

When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off.

Birthdays, humph.... My folks were so poor we couldn't give my sister a sweet 16 party until she was 28.

On my 60th birthday my wife gave me a superb birthday present. She let me win an argument.

A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for.

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

It's so sad to grow old alone. My wife hasn't had a birthday in 4 years. She was born in the year of our Lord-only-knows.

By the time the last candle was lit on her birthday cake

 in February, the first one had gone out. If she ever told her real age her birthday cake would be a fire hazard. When it was fully lit it looked like a prairie fire.

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               What is is about the word "Love"? When ever it is spoken, hearts start to pound, and a warmth surrounds us. Here are some of my favorite quotes spoken in and about love. May they warm your heart as they do mine.

"And in my Heart, A Temple for you will always stand."

--Ray Garraty

"You will always be welcome in my mind, Love, for you are in my heart."

--Ray Garraty

Love in the past is only a memory.

Love in the future is a fantasy.

Only here and now can we truly love.

--Buddha

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.

The real miracle is the love that inspires them.

In this sense everything that comes from

love is a miracle.

How sad it is that we find ourselves in a position where we must shield and shelter our own hearts, for what is it that makes life worth living if it is not the heart’s full expression? What is life without love? If we have been hurt, used, manipulated or betrayed we tend to shield the heart. We place it in a glass box like an ancient museum artifact where it may be seen but not touched, fearing the touch will break it again. In this we err. Leave a door in that wall. All of life’s efforts are for naught and as blowing dust if their reward does not find a place in the arms of love. If a life is lived in the absence of love, that life is empty and it’s accomplishments mean nothing. Deny not the heart and love will come to it as surely as spring will bring the blossom.

--Phoenix

There is no greater love than the love

that holds on when there seems

nothing left to hold on to.

--G.W.C. Thomas

One loving heart sets another on fire.

-- Augustine

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Whoso loves / Believes the impossible."

--Elizabeth Barrette Browning

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

--Iris Murdoch

"A mighty pain to love it is,

And tis' a pain that pain to miss;

But of all the pains, the greatest pain

Is to love, but love in vain."

--Abraham Crowley

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

--John Donne

"We must resemble each other a little in order to understand each other, but we must be a little different to love each other."

--Paul Geraldy

"Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly."

--Louis Ginsberg

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

--La Rochefoucauld

"We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities."

--Jacques Maritain

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

--Shakespeare

"There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful,  but there may never be two that love one another equally well."

--Thornton Wilder

"Loving someone can be the most beautiful thing in existence; remembering loving someone can be the most destructive."

--Adam Fendelman

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

--Lily Tomlin

Love: a temporary insanity often curable by marriage.

--Ambrose Bierce

The night has a thousand eyes,

And the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies,

With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one;

Yet the light of a whole life dies,

When love is done.

--Francis W Bourdillon

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

--Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

-- John Ciardi

There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.

-- François de La Rochefoucauld

All mankind loves a lover.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.

-- Voltaire

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

-- Anonymous

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

-- Alfred Adler

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

-- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

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