Birthday Poems

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
- Kahlil Gibran

We are all born naked and screaming and if you're lucky that sort of thing won't stop there
- Unknown

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell from "Gone with the wind "

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip!
- Unknown

From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
- William Butler Yeats

Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
- John P. Grier