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 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
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
- 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 Birthday Quotes
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 Birthday Quotes
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 Birthday Quotes
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 Birthday Quotes
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.
- Joan Rivers
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 Birthday Quotes
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
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 (or more)
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
