Birthday Quotes

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

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~Don Marquis


Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~Charles Schulz


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

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend. - John Lyle


Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett


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

Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.

'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

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book. - Cyril Connolly

You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. - Henry Ford

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends! - George Eliot


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

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