Quotes & Sayings
revised 6/8/11
Birthdays
1. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
2. Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
3. Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
4. You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
5. Lead me not into temptation; I can find it myself.
6. The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
7. You're not getting older, you're getting better.
8. Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
9. Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
10. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult
chapters in the great art of living.
11. I'm aiming by the time I'm seventy to stop being an adolescent.
12. We can't reach old age by another man's road.
13. You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
14. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
15. Today, be aware of how you are spending your 1,440 beautiful moments, and spend
them wisely.
16. Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
17. The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.
18. I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old wines.
19. The first hundred years are the hardest.
20. You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
21. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.
22. Looking fifty is great – if youʼre sixty.
23. "I'm fifty years of age. That's only 10 Celsius."
24. "The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left."
Boys
1. “All Boy”
2. Allʼs fair in MUD and WAR
3. Same shirt-different day-new dirt
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4. When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
5. “snakes and snails and puppy dogs tails...”
6. Some assembly required.
7. Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it.
8. Two eyes that shine so bright,
Two lips that kiss goodnight,
Two arms that hold me tight,
That little boy of mine.
9. Youʼre all the world to me,
You climb upon my knee,
To me youʼll always be
That little boy of mine.
10. The bigger the boys, the bigger the toys!
Brothers
1. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
2. It takes two men to make one brother.
3. A friend is a brother who was once a bother.
4. A brother is a friend given by Nature.
5. Never was there a companion equal to a brother.
6. I am smiling because you are my brother, Iʼm laughing because thereʼs nothing you can
do about it!
7. It was nice growing up with someone like you, someone to lean on, someone to count
on, someone to tell on!
8. Brothers are a work of heart.
Daughters
1. A daughter is a gift of love.
2. Daughters are like flowers, they fill the world with beauty, and sometimes attract pests.
3. A daughter may outgrow your lap, but she will never outgrow your heart.
4. A daughter is a day brightener and a heart warmer.
Family
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1. A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
2. The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.
3. The best happinesses are family happinesses.
4. You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
5. Families are like fudge, mostly sweet with a few nuts.
6. It all starts and ends with family.
7. One generation plants the seeds, and another gets the shade.
Fathers
1. A son may outgrow your lap, but never your heart.
2. Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his
# advice.
3. A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
4. Blessed is the man who hears many voices call him father.
Firemen
1. All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.
2. Firefighters save hearts and homes.
3. Courage canʼt see around corners, but goes around them anyway.
Friends
1. You don't make friends, you earn them.
2. Money might make you wealthy, but friends makes you rich.
3. A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked.
4. Friends are kisses blown to us by angels.
5. Nothing but heaven itself is better than a true friend.
6. No road is long with good company.
7. A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
8. Hold a true friend with both your hands.
9. Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
10. What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
11. Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.
12. Your friend is the one who knows all about you, and still likes you.
13. An old friend will help you move. A good friend will help you move a dead body.
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14. Love is blind. Friendship tries not to notice.
15. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Girls
1. “sugar and spice and everything nice..”
2. A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.
3. Little girls are just angels who haven't yet spread their wings.
4. My name is NO NO but grandma calls me precious.
Golf
1. The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.
Graduation
1. If you donʼt have faith in yourself, no one else will.
2. When you leave here, donʼt forget why you came.
3. Put your future in good hands - your own.
4. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters - compared to what lies
within us.
5. Shoot for the moon, even if you miss youʼll land among the stars.
6. Wherever you go, no matter the weather, bring your own sunshine.
7. Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude.
8. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
9. All I ever needed to know, I learned in kindergarten.
10. I have never let school interfere with my education. -Mark Twain
11. Donʼt cry because itʼs over, smile because it happened.
Grandchildren
1. If I had known grandchildren were this much fun I would have had them first.
2. Holding a great-grandchild makes getting old worthwhile.
Grandfathers
1. A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
2. Grandchildren are Godʼs way of compensating us for growing old.
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3. Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.
4. I wish I had the energy that my grandchildren have - if only for self-defense.
5. Grandpas are short on criticism and long on love.
6. Youʼve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Grandmothers
1. Grandmother - a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
2. Grandmas hold our tiny hands for just a little while, but our hearts forever.
3. Grandchildren are Godʼs way of compensating us for growing old.
4. Always and forever is a Grandmaʼs love
5. A garden of love grows in a Grandmaʼs heart
6. Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting.
7. Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.
Irish Sayings
1. If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough.
2. A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss...
Ah yes, these things I, too, shall miss.
3. May you have laughter to cheer you,
those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
4. Always remember to forget
The troubles that passed away.
But never forget to remember
The blessings that come each day.
5. We cannot share this sorrow
If we havenʼt grieved a while.
Nor can we feel anotherʼs joy
Until weʼve learned to smile.
6. The Irish - Be they kings, or poets, or farmers,
They're a people of great worth,
They keep company with the angels,
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And bring a bit of heaven here to earth.
Life/Living/Aging
1. The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
2. When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the
courage to stand alone and be counted.
3. You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
4. Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty, they merely move it
from their faces into their hearts.
5. The heart that loves is always young.
6. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
7. Wrinkles merely indicate where smiles have been.
8. One is only the age of their heart.
9. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
10. Live each day as if it were a memory in the making.
11. We are parted, and yet are not parted.
12. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
13. Don’t regret growing older, it is a privilege denied to many.
14. We are always the same age inside.
15. Youth lasts much longer than young people think.
16. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance!
17. Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party
18. The fondest memories are made gathered around the table.
Love/Marriage/Anniversaries
1. Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.
2. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives
you courage.
3. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They
must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
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4. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
5. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the
whole night sky in the palm of my hand.
6. Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
7. Our wedding was many years ago, the celebration continues to this day.
8. Loveʼs sweetest meanings are unspoken.
Memorial Tributes Opening Sentiments
1. “Name”...a life of family, faith and love.
2. Our memories are bright, our love doesnʼt fade.
3. Love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
4. The heart that loves is always young.
5. Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. -Thomas More
6. The love of a family is lifeʼs greatest blessing.
Memorial Tributes Closing Sentiments
1. When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.
2. Until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
3. One generation plants the trees, another gets the shade.
4. They are the true disciples of Christ, not who know most, but who love most.
5. Righteousness goes before him and prepares the way for his steps. -Psalm 85:13
6. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord. -
Psalms 31
7. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. -
Matthew 11:28
8. To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. -
Ecclesiastes 3:199
9. You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand
there are pleasures forevermore. - Psalm 16:11
10. One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and
to seek him in his temple. -Psalm 27:4
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11. When you look for me, you will find me. Yes, when you seek me with all your heart, you
will find me with you, says the LORD.” – Jeremiah 29:13-14
Military Service
1. Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
2. Courage is endurance for one moment more…
3. Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world.
But, the Marines don't have that problem.
4. I was born an American; I will live an America; I shall die an American! - Daniel Webster
Miscellaneous
1. Music is love in search of a word.
2. All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Mothers
1. Like a garden, a family blooms with a motherʼs love.
2. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
3. A mother is an angel in disguise.
4. A motherʼs love is tied with heartstrings.
5. God could not be everywhere and so He made mothers.
6. Mothers are like buttons - they hold everything together.
7. If at first you donʼt succeed, do it like your mother told you.
8. Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children!
Nurses
1. Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.
2. Caring is the essence of nursing.
3. Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.
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4. When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch
yours.
5. Nurses are I.V. leaguers.
6. A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.
7. It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing. - Mother Theresa
8. LPN: means Loving Person Near.
Sisters
1. Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
2. Having a sister is like having a best friend you can't get rid of. You know whatever you
do, they'll still be there.
3. You can kid the world. But not your sister.
4. When sisters are reunited, no matter what their age, girls are together again.
5. True happiness is knowing your sister will always be there for you.
6. A sister is a forever friend.
7. Three is never a crowd with sisters.
8. To the world we grow old; to our sisters we are as we always were.
9. Youʼre never lonely when you have a sister for a friend.
10. Our roots say weʼre sisters, our hearts say weʼre friends.
11. Sisters by blood, friends by choice.
12. It was nice growing up with someone like you, someone to lean on, someone to count
on, someone to tell on!
13. Sisters are a work of heart.
Travel
1. My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
2. Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I
have seen.
3. For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake.