This week’s quotes are are devoted to birthdays, in honor of the site’s admin.

One consistent theme when discussing birthdays is unmitigated deception…

Lying about your age is one approach:

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
- Satchel Paige

But there’s also the “go ahead and kid yourself” approach:

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
- British Proverb

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier