Birthday Cards

Cards for birthdays show you care - and what better birthday present is there than showing someone you care about them?

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

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

Does it make a difference if you pay for your ecard, or if you use a free site like Care2? I think so. Either way you show you care - and let's be honest - it's the message that matters the most when it shows how much you care - but with a free site you (especially one like this one that actually makes a donation to save rain forest every time you send a card) you're saving your money for things like gifts and donations (or not - but you are going to use that money for good things, right?! :)

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English Proverb

The secret anniversaries of the heart. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The secret to eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T. S. Eliot

I love this quote: The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. I'm not sure who came up with that, but I think it's true. And the amazing thing is that even just sending a card makes a world of difference.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. - Pierre Cornielle

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - Henry L. Mencken