Birthday Quotes
Birthdays are special days and there is a variety of thought and quotations on the topic to share with friends and family on their special days. Aging is viewed seriously but also with a great sense of comedy as the following quotes may reveal. These quotes are taken from men and women, historical and contemporary who had something relevant to say about birthdays and the aging process.
“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.” Larry Lorenzoni “I’m sixty years of age. That’s 16 Celsius.” George Carlin “Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” Jean Paul Richter “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” Robert Frost “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional” Chili Davis “Here’s a posy of flowers, and a basket too, With Birthday greetings all for you.” Anonymous “Pleas’d look forward, pleas’d to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.” Alexander Pope “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” John Glenn “It is lovely, when I forget all about birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.” Ellen Glasgow “There was a star danced, and under that was I born.” Shakespeare “The older the fiddler the sweeter the tune.” English Proverb “The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.” Lucille Ball “I trust that age doth not wither nor custom stale my infinite variety.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift “When you are older you will learn that life is a long lesson in humility.” James M. Barrie “Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” Maurice Chevalier “Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.” Anonymous “Life begins at forty.” W.B. Pitkin “A fool at forty is a fool indeed.” Edward Young “Looking fifty is great if you’re sixty.” Joan Rivers “At age fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.” George Orwell “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” Benjamin Franklin “Middle age is when a man keeps turning off the lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.” Eli Cass “It takes a long time to grow young.” Pablo Picasso “Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.” Groucho Marx “Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is getting old.” Washington Irving “I’m just the same age I’ve always been” “To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.” Bernard Baruch “Getting old ain’t for sissies.” Betty Davis “I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.” Phyllis Diller “You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.” John P. Grier “Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” C.E.M. Joad “Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.” Lucy Larcom “It is sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.” Brigitte Bardot “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” Emily Dickinson “The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.” Doug Larsen “I grow old ever learning many things.” Solon “The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.” Richard John Needham “Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.” Billy Burke “Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” Franz Kafka “Children are a great comfort in your old age—and they help you reach it faster, too.” Lionel Kauffman “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.” James A. Garfield “From our birthday until we die, Is but a winking of an eye.” William Butler Yates “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” Plautus “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” Madeleine L’Engle “You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” Bob Hope |  |
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