birthday quotes

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It’s the day I was born. My mother’s birthday, and a lot of my friends‘ birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier… I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

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

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.