Birthday

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
- Herbert V. Prochnow, 1897 – 1998

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter, 1763 - 1825

One of the sadder things, I think,
Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
Presents and parties disappear,
The cards grow fewer year by year,
Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
How many care we're still alive?
- Philip Larkin, 1922 - 1986