Vintage Birthday Sayings

#1. Some people say that, as summer approaches, we start to have weird ideas; we feel smaller because we spend more time out in the open air, and that makes us aware of how large the world is. The horizon seems farther away, beyond the clouds and the walls of our house.

Paulo Coelho

#2. It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

George Eliot

#3. An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home.
[Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Asking the question matters more than finding the answer.

Mark Beauregard

#5. I don't know of any source for online maps showing the platform, stairs, escalators, elevators, mezzanines and other station details.

Robert James Thomson

#6. In the souls of the people The Grapes of Wrath are Filling and Growing Heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

Happy 112th Birthday John Steinbeck.

John Steinbeck

#7. Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

Juvenal

#8. Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

Aesop

#9. We are a terrible defensive team right now. We're not putting forth the maximum effort that we need to put forth, especially in our position. You'd think that we'd put forth that maximum effort to not only win the game, but to get a good rhythm to get into the playoffs.

Jermaine O'Neal

#10. I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Jaime Winstone

#11. Being vintage like a fine wine
Should make you proud of being old
And being mature like a cheese
Certainly explains the mould!
Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

John Walter Bratton

#12. There are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 52 weeks in a year, and X years in a life. Solve for X.

Jenny Offill