Famous Happy Birthday Quotes, Greetings, Find inspiration and humorous quotes from famous and not-so-famous people about birthdays and aging.
Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
George Crabbe
Through a dull tract of woe, of dread, The toiling year has pass’d and fled: And, lo! in sad and pensive strain, I sing my birthday date again.
Benjamin Franklin
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
Robert Southey
Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Youth comes but once in a lifetime!”
Thomas Alva Edison
“I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred!”
Oliver Goldsmith
“I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines!”
Mark Twain
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been!”
Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years!”
Oscar Wilde
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything!”
George Bernard Shaw
“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!”
Bob Hope
“You know you are getting old when the candles
cost more than the cake!”
Bob Hope
“Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better
in the morning!”
Grouch Marx
“I intend to live forever, or die trying”
Gertrude Stein
“We are always the same age inside”
Lucille Ball
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age!”
Fred Astaire
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young!”
Author Unknown
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age!”
Robert Frost
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age!”
William Shakespeare
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye’d, Such seems your beauty still.”
Katherine Hepburn
“If you survive long enough, you’re revered – rather
like an old building!”
Rev. Larry Lorenzoni
“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest!”
Ogden Nash
“Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else!”
Robert Browning
“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be…”
Maurice Chevalier
“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative!”
Jack Benny
“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter !”
John Glenn
“For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday!”
Oscar Wilde
“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything!”
Bob Hope
“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle!”
Doris Day
“The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it!”
Stephen Wright?Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.”??E. Joseph Cossman?The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.??Robert Orben?The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.??Robert Frost?Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.??Oscar Wilde?Thirty-five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.??Ogden Nash?Middle age is when you’ve met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.??Daniel Francois Esprit Auber?Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.??Author Unknown?We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
Author Unknown
At the age of twenty, we don’t care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at forty, we discover that it wasn’t thinking of us at all.
Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Arnold Bennett
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Hervey Allen
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Lew Wallace
A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all plowed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.
Georges Clemenceau
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thirtythe promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
Robert Frost
Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
Margaret Fuller
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
Bette Midler
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
Mark Twain
Whatever a man’s age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.?
Marty Bucella
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.?
Andy Rooney
It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.?
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Chili Davis
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Dave Barry
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Charles Schulz
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Dan Bennett
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
Truman Capote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Dorothy Fulheim
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Herbert Asquith
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Groucho Marx “I must confess I was born at an early age.”
George Carlin
I’m sixty years of age. That’s 16 Celsius.
Author Unknown
You’re not 40, you’re eighteen with 22 years experience.
Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
Jennifer Yane
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
Tom Wilson
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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