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I hope you can find the time to pamper yourself, and enjoy this special day to the fullest.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
A few birthday quotes for you, some silly and others inspiring.
# The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille ball
# The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English Proverb
# Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. - Jack Benny
# The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
# There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course. - Rainer Maria Rilke
# PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind. - Alexander Pope
# Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire
# Whatever with the past has gone,
The best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom
# It takes a long time to grow young. - Pablo Picasso
# It is better to wear out than to rust out. - Bishop Richard Cumberland
# A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost
# My Birthday! what a difference sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears. - Thomas Moore
# Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too,
With Birthday greetings all for you. - Annonymous
# Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,
I never was so happy since the hour I was born. - Anonymous
# Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. - Helen Hayes
# 'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd. - Alexander Pope
# When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. - James M. Barrie
# Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. - Margaret Fuller
Jaco, a parrot in Salzburg, could not only speak but seemed to understand grammar. Whenever his person left, Jaco would say "God be with you." But when several people were departing, Jaco would change it to "God be with all of you."