Famous Birthday Quotes
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Abraham Lincoln
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Alexander Pope
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope
Anna Magnani
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
~ Anna Magnani
Arnold Palmer
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~ Arnold Palmer
Benjamin Franklin
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Bette Midler
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
~ Bette Midler
Betty Davis
Getting old ain't for sissies.
~ Betty Davis
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You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~ Bob Hope
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
~ Bob Hope
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Brigitte Bardot
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Charles Schultz
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles Schultz
Coco Chanel
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel
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Doris Day
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
~ Doris Day
Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
~ Emily Dickinson
Euripides
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
F. Scott Fitzgerald
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
~ Frank Sinatra
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Fred Astaire
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire
George Orwell
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell
Goethe
Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
~ Goethe
Henry Ford
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
Jack Benny
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny
Jerry Seinfeld
Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
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Joan Rivers
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
~ Joan Rivers
John Glenn
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
~ John Glenn
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Katherine Hepburn
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
~ Katherine Hepburn
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Lucille Ball
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
~ Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
~ Mark Twain
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years.
~ Mark Twain
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance;
the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
~ Mark Twain
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Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
~ Muhammad Ali
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Pablo Picasso
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
~ Pablo Picasso
It takes a long time to become young.
~ Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.
~ Pablo Picasso
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Phyliss Diller
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
~ Phyllis Diller
Plato
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
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
~ Plato
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Robert Browning
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...
~ Robert Browning
Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Frost
Time and Tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
~ Robert Frost
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T. S. Eliot
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
Virginia Woolf
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
William Shakespeare
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I eye'd,
Such seems your beauty still.
~ William Shakespeare
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