Birthday Quotes

There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~ John Glenn


Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.  ~ Mark Twain


Middle age is the time when you think that in a week or two you'll feel good as ever.  ~ Don Marquis


By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.  ~ Francois Mauriac


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


Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.  ~ Fred Astaire


Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.  ~ Muhammad Ali


Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.  ~ Leon Trotsky


Don't think of it as wrinkles. Think of it as relaxed-fit skin.  ~ Cathy Crimmins


For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.  ~ Margaret Atwood


Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.  ~ J. P. Sears


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


You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.  ~ Ogden Nash


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.  ~ Albert Einstein


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~ Bob Hope


May you live all the days of your life.  ~ Jonathan Swift


No one is ever old enough to know better.  ~ Holbrook Jackson


The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.  ~ C.S. Lewis


We are always the same age inside.  ~ Gertrude Stein


How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?  ~ Satchel Paige


Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.  ~ Art Carney


By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.  ~ George Burns


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


Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.  ~ Caryn Leschen


We turn not older with years, but newer every day.  ~ Emily Dickinson


You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.  ~ Bob Hope


Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.  ~ Mark Twain


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~ Jennifer Yane


Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.  ~ Groucho Marx


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~ Chili Davis


We don't grow older we grow riper.  ~ Pablo Picasso


The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.  ~ Joan Collins


A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.  ~ John Barrymore


God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.  ~ Voltaire


Don't count the days, make the days count.  ~ Muhammad Ali


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


I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.  ~ Bernard Baruch


She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.  ~ Anita Brookner


Old age ain't no place for sissies.  ~ Bette Davis


It takes a long time to grow young.  ~ Pablo Picasso


Age is a high price to pay for maturity.  ~ Tom Stoppard


Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.  ~ Pope John XXIII


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


No wise man ever wished to be younger.  ~ Jonathan Swift


You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


Our birth is nothing but our death begun.  ~ Edward Young


Youth has no age.  ~ Pablo Picasso


At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.  ~ Benjamin Franklin


Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.  ~ Plautus


Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time  ~ Jean Paul Richter


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