General
Birthday
Our birthdays
are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean
Paul Richter
Let us celebrate
the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
Birthdays?
yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
- James Kenneth Stephen
From our
birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
- William Butler Yeats
There are
three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get
un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents,
you know.
- Lewis Carroll
We
turn not older with years, but newer every day.
- Emily Dickinson
We are always
the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein
Old age:
A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions
have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from
one master but from many.
- Plato
It
takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
The
older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
- English Proverb
The birthday
of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
- Christina Georgina Rossetti
No wise man
ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift
One of the
signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship
with other human beings as we take our place among them.
- Virginia Woolf
The greatest
comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest
satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many
benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
- Marcus Cato
May you live
all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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The
best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived
yet.
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Robert Orben |
Grow old
along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the
first was made.
- Robert Browning
Funny
Quotes
Inside every
older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora
Harvey Armstrong
Oh to be
seventy again.
- Georges Clemenceau, upon
seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday
Old age isn't
so bad when you consider the alternative.
- Maurice Chevalier
Getting old
ain't for sissies.
- Bette Davis
Of late I
appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age.
- Richard Armour
When I was
younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened
or not.
- Mark Twain
I'm at an
age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller
A diplomat
is a man who always remembers a woman's
birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
You are only
young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
- John P. Grier
If I'd known
I was going to live this long (100 years),
I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Ubie Blake
Men are like
wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with
age.
- C.E.M. Joad
Let us respect
gray hairs, especially our own.
- J. P. Sears
My birthday!--what
a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
- Thomas Moore
Age is a
high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
A birthday:—and
now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife—
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
- Jean Ingelow
If we could
be twice young and twice old we could correct all our
mistakes.
- Euripides
Growing old
is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you have not committed.
- Anthony Powell
Call this
an unfair generalization if you must,
but old people are no good at everything.
- Moe, from the Simpsons
Old
people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them
for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Milestone
Birthdays
20th
At 20 years
of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the
judgment.
- Ben Franklin
Live
as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest
half of your life.
- Robert
Southey
35th
& 30th
Everything
I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau
Time and tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
- Robert Frost
Thirty-five
is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen
After 30,
a body has a mind of its own.
- Bette Midler
A man thirty
years old, I said to myself, should have his field of
life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after
that it is summer time.
- Lew Wallace
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.
- Oscar Wilde
Very
few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five.
The reason is that very few people do anything creative
before the age of thrity-five.
- Joel Hildebrand
40th
What most
persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply
a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
Life begins
at forty.
- W. B. Pitkin
This wine
is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum quadragenta est. Bene
aetatem fert.
- Cicero
The first
forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty
furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly
to understand the true meaning and connection of the
text with its moral and its beauties.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The first
forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty
supply the commentary.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man
over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
Be
wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young
Forty
is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- French Proverb
50th
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
Looking
fifty is great--if you're sixty.
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At age 50,
everyone has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell
The man who
views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty
has wasted thirty years of his life.
- Muhammad Ali
You take
all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out
of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run
it.
- Henry Ford
60th
A man of
sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years
in eating.
- Arnold Bennett
Some
people reach the age of sixty before others.
- Lord Hood
What,
start at this! when sixty years have spread
Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head?
Is this the all observing age could gain?
Or hast thou known the worl so long in vain?
- John Dryden
One
starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it
is too late.
-
Pablo Picasso
70th
I
have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by
sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill
anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim,
this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
- Mark Twain, at his seventieth
birthday dinner, in 1905, as quoted in Saving Your
Brain, by Jeff Victoroff
Our brains
are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life winds them
up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the
key into the hand of the angel of the resurrection.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, as
quoted in Human Engineering
On my seventieth
birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain
height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly
rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and
flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days,
spread out green, wild, and beautiful.
- The Consolations of Age,
translated from the German of Zschokke's autobiography
The first
forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty
furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly
to understand the true meaning and connection of the
text with its moral and its beauties.
-
Arthur Schopenhauer
Life has
got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy,
I would say the advantage is that you take life more
calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To
be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful
and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
80th
Oh,
to be seventy again.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,
upon seeing an attractive woman on his 90th birthday
Life would
be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the
age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
- Mark Twain
90th
A man over
ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors:
he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the
young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy
must get by him before he can come near their camp.
-
Oliver Wendell Holmes
100th
When I die,
I want it to be on my 100th birthday, in my beach house
on Maui and I want my husband to be so upset that he
has to drop out of college.
- Roz Doyle, from the television
show Frasier
