Birthdays

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