All of these quotations are from "A Book of Quotations for Special Occasions". There's quotations for all occasions.

BIRTH
"Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard
for a living,
But the child that's born on
the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe and good
and gay."
Anon

BIRTHDAYS: YOUTH
"It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all."
Georges Courteline (1917)
"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations,
dreams."
Longfellow (1874)

BIRTHDAYS: MIDDLE-AGE
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we more from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost', and say, 'I lost it.'"
Sydney J Harris (1962)
"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realise the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
Goethe: Elective Affinities (1809)
"Middle age is when you've met so many people, that every new person you neet reminds you of someone else."
Ogden Nash (1949)

BIRTHDAYS: OLD-AGE
"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!"
Adlai Stevenson (1955)
"First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down."
Lee Rosenburg
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