Quotable Sentiments

40th Birthday

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!
- Cicero, "On Old Age"

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

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
- Phyllis Diller, American comedian

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope, American comedian

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope, American comedian

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
- Unknown

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Unknown

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Ogden Nash

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
- Herbert Asquith

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.
- Alfred Victor Vigny, French man of letters

Middle age is when wherever you go on holiday you pack a sweater.
- Denia Norden, British humorist

Old age is no place for sissies.
- Bette Davis, film actress

Just say, "I'm not 40, I'm 18 with 22 years experience."
- Unknown

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
- Charles Schultz

Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
- Pope John XXIII

Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard Baruch, American financier

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.
- Groucho Marx, American comedian

Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.
- Groucho Marx, American comedian

Baby

Babies are bits of stardust; blown from the hand of God.
- FTD Customer

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
- Herbert Hoover, former U.S. Director of the C.I.A.

Every child is born a genius.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, Canadian engineer

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
- Arthur C. Coxe, English writer (1900-)

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
- Carol Burnett, American comedienne

How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Peter Ustinov, British actor

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
- Peter De Vries, American novelist

Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
- Peter Ustinov, British actor

We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
- Woodrow Wyatt, British politician

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents

Babies are such a nice way to start people.
- Unknown

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- Carl Sandburg, 20th century American poet

Babies are works of art created by God for his pleasure.
- FTD Customer

When you were born, you cried
And the world rejoiced.
- Native American

Death & Bereavement

Watching over us
and protecting us
with his angel's wings
- FTD Customer

In my end is my beginning.
- T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets

Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time.
- Unknown

Only time moves on to the next scene. Memory remains part of the heart forever.
- Unknown

And he will wipe out every tear form their eyes and death will be no more.
- Revelations 21:4

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
- Wallace Stevens, American poet

Death is not the last sleep. It is the final awakening.
- Walter Scott, Scottish novelist

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
-Oscar Wilde, English writer

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
-Thomas Moore, English theologian

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb

In eternity everything is just beginning.
- Elias Canetti, Bulgarian author

Into each life some rain must fall.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890

Life is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warior and orator, 1890

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
- John Allston

It isn't life that matters! It's the courage you bring to it.
- Sir Hugh Walpole

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.
- Bible, Wisdom of Solomon

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.
- Bible, Ecclesiastes

God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of his own eternity.
- Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon

The journey is the reward.
- Chinese Proverb

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
- Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
- William Shakespeare

Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet

It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
- Hans Christian Anderson

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.
- William Shakespeare

Death is just a beginning of another life.
- Upa. Surya Dharma Win Ong & FTD customer

Joy shared is twice the joy.
Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.
- Unknown

May God hold you in the palm of his hand.
- Irish blessing

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Father's Day

A father is a banker provided by nature.
- French proverb

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash, American humorist

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
- Bertrand Russell

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead

A man should have a child, plant a tree and write a book.
- Chinese proverb

It's what you listen to as a child that you always come back to.
- Al Cohn, New York Times

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Get Well

A doctor can bury his mistakes; an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright.

He who has health has hope,
but he who has hope has everything.
- Arab proverb

Never go to a doctor's office where office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck, American humorist

What counts is not the size of the dog in a fight -
It's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, American president (1958)

People who feel well are sick people neglecting themselves.
- Jules Romain, French physician

When one has good health, it is not serious to be ill.
- Unknown

Your body is like a bar of soap.
It gradually wears down, from repeated use.
- Ritchie Allen, American baseball player (1970s)

God heals and the doctor takes the fees.
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

Love

You complete me.
- Jerry McGuire

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.
- Kahlil Gibran

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Luciano de Crescenzo

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

The bond that holds
two hearts in love,
Receives its strength
from God's great Love.
- FTD customer

Love can never be tamed. It can only be felt with a true heart.
- FTD customer

Love is not losing freedom, it is sharing freedom with another.
- FTD customer

Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.
- Unknown

Love is a feeling that can be given without regrets.
- FTD customer

You've got to dance like nobody's looking, and love like it's never going to hurt.
- Unknown

Real love does not destroy you... It constructs you.
- Unknown

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small, yet enkindles the great.
- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

The times we spend together are the best times that I know, I am a better person, because you've made me so.
- FTD customer

To the world you are someone, but to someone you are the world.
- Unknown

There is no greater pain than not being with the one you love.
- FTD customer

Love isn't love
Until you give it away.
- Oscar Hammerstein, The Sound of Music.

The most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen, or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Mother's Day

To a child's ear, "mother" is magic in any language.
- Arlene Benedict, For Mother with Love

God sees us through our Mothers' eyes and rewards us for our virtues.
- Ganeshan Venkatarman, Indian philosopher

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face
- George Eliot, English novelist

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist

A mother is she who can take the place of all others.
- Cardinal Mermillod

A mother's love is instinctual, unconditional, and forever.
- Joe Chapo, FTD.com customer

Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.
- unknown

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.
- Marc Chagall

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
- Sarah Josepha Hale

The strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
- George Herbert

A mother loves her children even when they least deserve to be loved.
- Kate Samperi, "Mothers"

Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.
- Katherine Butler Hathaway, "The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith"

When it comes to love, Mom's the word.

For all the ways you've helped me grow
I want to say I love you so.
- Renaissance® Greeting Cards, a div. of FTD Inc.

Who ran to help me when I fell,
Or kissed the place to make it well?
....My mother.
- Ann Taylor

A mother understands what a child does not say.
- Jewish proverb

Pick Me Up

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- St. Augustine

If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.
- Erma Bombeck

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Mistakes are doorways to discovery.
- Unknown

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
- Japanese proverb

When you're sad, learn something.
- Merton

If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything.
- Anonymous

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
- Duke Snider

Faith is boundless and that which is truly holy is bound by faith...
- Christopher Rowe, "Masters Tie"

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his brother.
- Kahlil Gibran

Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

Keep your face to the sunshine,
and you cannot see the shadows.
- Helen Keller

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles Schultz, American cartoonist/humorist

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist

The place of the wound is the place of the healing.
- Richard Bohr

Not everything that is faced can be changed,
But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin, American novelist/writer

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
- Epicurus

Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike, U.S. novelist

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes, American poet

Administrative Assistant's Day

Brilliance arises from ordinary people working in extraordinary ways.
Thanks for being extraordinary!

They say no matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
I really appreciate your help.

I can do anything I think I can, but I can't function without you!
Sincere thanks for all your help.

Someone once said that ingenuity plus work equals miracles.
Thanks for all the miracles you perform everyday!

They say a combined effort can break down the wall of impossibility.
Thanks for helping to break down the walls!

They say you're only as good as the team behind you.
Thanks for "backing me up!"

Example isn't the main thing influencing others - it's the only thing.
Thanks for setting such a great one.

They say that working together brings out the best in us.
Thanks for bringing out the best in me!

They say that very few burdens are heavy if everyone lifts.
Thanks for making the burden a lot lighter.

Tough times don't last, but tough people do.
Thanks for hanging in there.

A dedicated team, they say, is the fuel for progress and growth.
Thanks for your dedication.

They say it takes two wings for a bird to fly.
I'm thankful you're my other wing.

Valentine's Day

For the nostalgic or sentimental, try a vintage sentiment from our collection of messages borrowed from actual 19th and early 20th century valentines.

I like your lips, I like your style
But most of all I like your smile.

Let soft love beaming from thine eyes
Speak rapture to my heart.

Plenty of love,
Tons of kisses,
Hope some day
To be your Mrs.

I ever will in you remain,
So let your heart return again.

May every blessing be thy lot,
I only ask "Forget Me Not."

Thy sparkling eyes of blackest jet
Have lured me into Cupid's net.

Your eyes are blue,
Your heart is true,
Your lips divine
When they met mine.

More closely bound than friend or brother,
One cannot live without the other.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Carnations are sweet
And so are you.

Roses are red
Violets are blue
In my life
There's a place for you.

Accept, Dear Girl, this loving heart of mine,
And be my fashionable valentine.

My love is like a cabbage
Divided into two,
The leaves I give to others
But the heart I give to you.

I bet you a cuddle, I bet you a kiss
I bet you'll never guess who sent you this.

Cupid by the comet's blaze,
Set Lovers' hearts on fire.

When days are dark and friends are few,
Remember me as I do you.

Kisses spread disease, it's stated.
Kiss me quick! I'm vaccinated.

My darling girl
My chosen one,
I dream of you
And you alone.

If this sender you can name
All these kisses you can claim.

Valentine, O Valentine,
I'll be your love and you'll be mine.