The Best Funny Birthday Phrases, Sayings & Quotes … Plus the History of Greeting Cards

• Here, you'll find some great funny birthday phrases and
sayings.
• Plus, you'll get the history of birthday cards.  

Depending on your state of
mind, life
has a tendency to become stressful and overwhelming at times.

In some cases, this happens even during our birthdays.
Sometimes particularly on our birthday.

Obviously
this is all turned upside down.

Our
birthday is supposed to be a nice day for us,

it is the one day a year that's supposed to be all about us.
We're not supposed to be stressed out trying to prepare nice
stuff for visitors, etc.

Birthdays are nature’s way of
telling us to eat more cake.
~ Funny Birthday Phrase ~

In fact, birthday or not, the large majority of us have a hard
time finding time to devote for ourselves. And what do you know,
sometimes this simple fact might be one of the root causes of
stress and other kinds of emotional and physical overload.

Through a dull tract of woe, of dread, the toiling year has
passed and fled: And, lo! In sad and pensive strain, I sing my
birthday date again.


~ Funny Birthday Phrase ~

From the age of 'elderly' to age of 'old' your hair
turns to silver, but your wisdom to gold.


~ Soren Lauritzen ~ , the Personal Development Guy

Furthermore a large number of us live in the past or in the
future. Although not one of the funny birthday phrases, Jean de
la Bruyere clearly understood this when he said:

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present,
which very few of us do.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
~

Sooo … if we live most of our life in the past or the future,
and we also cannot bring ourselves to take time for ourselves,
what is left if we don't want to keel over from worry and
stress?

Well, laughter.

Laughter is a form of therapy in itself. Laughter is the best
medicine.

So, right now is the perfect time to start looking for the best
funny birthday messages and funny birthday quotations to put in
someone's card. It just might make both you and the recipient
laugh, reduce your stress and thus prolong your lives!

For instance,


here's what to say to your significant other when you forget his
or her birthday:

"But Honey,



how do you expect me to remember your birthday when you
never look any older? "

And here's the very first funny birthday phrase:

The best way to remember your wife's
birthday is to forget it once.

~
Funny Birthday Phrase
~

And let's tarry no more; here's the first bunch of funny
birthday quotes and quotations …

Funny Birthday Phrases & Quotations

Birthdays are like boogers, the
more you have the harder it is to breathe.
~ Funny Birthday Messages ~

We're not that different from wine
and cheese. As you age and mature you get a choice: Like wine
and cheese you can turn one sided, sour and smelly … or ….
multi faceted, sweet and aromatic. What determines the
difference? Your emphasis on love, both for yourself and for
others.
~ Soren Lauritzen ~ ,the Personal
Development Guy

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier … I put
them in the same room and let them fight it out.
~ Stephen Wright
~

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him
a hundred dollars and said, ‘Buy yourself something that
will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present
for my mother.
~ Rita Rudner
~

About the only thing that comes to us
without effort is old age.
~ Funny Birthday Quote ~

If you live to the age of a hundred,
you have it made because very few people die past the age of a
hundred.

~

George Burns
~

Inside every older person is a
younger person wondering what happened.

~

Jennifer Yane
~

More funny birthday sayings to come! But first, let's take quick a look at
…

The History of Greeting Cards and Birthday Cards

You
can trace the history of greeting cards back to the ancient
Chinese. During this time, the Chinese used them for sending
messages of good will on New Years.

Many believe the early Egyptians, too, used to use papyrus
scrolls for conveying greetings to friends and loved ones.

Life is a card game during the
first half of which we get birthday cards, and during the second
half get-well cards.







~



Evan Esar






~

Later in history, in the early 1400's the exchange of handmade
paper greeting cards within
Europe developed. Throughout this time, the Germans
would use woodcuts in order to print their New Year's greetings.

After the introduction of the postage stamp in the 1850's and
advancements in technology for printing, greeting cards became
more affordable.

As for the
US of A, greeting cards did not
emerge into the industry until 1856. This marked the time when
the German immigrant Louis Prang first started a small
lithographic business near
Boston. Throughout the early 1870's,
Prang is credited for perfecting the printing process. Following
this, he started publishing deluxe editions of Christmas cards.
These greeting cards instantly gained popularity, even in England.

For the first time in the 1950's funny birthday sayings, along
with funny birthday quotes and sayings started to see the pages
of Birthday cards all over the
United States. Since then, many
of the funny birthday sayings and phrases have evolved along
with the changing times.

Throughout the years, the number of birthday phrases has grown
to become, well, many. Some of them reference people's silliness
as…

Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood
around and sang, ‘Happy Birthday.'
~ Steven Wright
~

While other funny birthday sayings refer to a person's belief on
why more people are living longer. One such example is…

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon
undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
~ Funny Birthday Phrase ~

On the other hand, some of the funny birthday phrases reference
women and their age. Actually, you can find a number such as
these…

Few women admit their age. Few men
act theirs.
~ Funny Birthday Saying ~

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but
never remembers her age.
~ Robert Frost
~

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never
remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
~ Ogden
Nash
~

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks
so calculating.
~ Oscar Wilde
~

Funny Old Birthday Quotes about Growing Old(er)

No matter what, nothing beats the good old funny birthday
sayings about a person getting old …

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
~ Maurice Chevalier
~

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
~ William Shakespeare
~

First you forget names, then you forget faces,
then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull
your zipper down.



~


Leo Rosenberg ~

How old I am? In dog years, I'm dead.




~ Funny Birthday Saying
~

A man of ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his
longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it's
because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have
stayed up and worried.
~ Dorthea Kent
~

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning
paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on
it, I get up.
~ Harry Hershfield
~

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its
value every year. I told him, "At my age I don't even buy green
bananas".
~ Claude D. Pepper
~

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and
old.
~ Peter Gabriel
~

Funny Birthday Phrases to Make You Think a Bit

Other funny birthday quotes just make you think …

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I
leapt; helpless, naked, piping loud, like a fiend hid in a
cloud.
~ William Blake
~

Real Birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the
days when we have a new birth.
~ Ralph Parlette
~

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric
skillet for her birthday.
~ Erma Bombeck
~

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O!
‘tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
~ Benjamin Franklin
~

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding
you're exactly the same.
~ Audrey Hepburn
~

Finally there are those funny birthday phrases and quotes where
people talk about the things they would do for their youth back
or the benefits found with growing old…

To get back my youth I would do anything in the
world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.



~ Oscar Wilde

~

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
~ Abraham Sutzkever
~

You can only be young once. But you
can always be immature.


~ Dave Barry

~

Okay, that's it, for now. Hope you enjoyed this collection of
funny birthday phrases, quotes and sayings and the brief history
of greeting cards. No, wait, here a final one for you:

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
~ Lucy Lacrom
~

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