147 Touching 50th Birthday Quotes to Help You Reflect on Life

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Famous 50th Birthday Quotes

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. — H. H. Asquith

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five. — William Holden

When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery. — Greg Norman

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51. — Julianne Moore

I always said marriage should be a fifty-fifty proposition. He should be at least fifty years old, and have at least fifty-million dollars. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. — Phyllis Diller

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing. — Faina Ranevskaya

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. — Hedy Lamarr

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

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

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. — J. R. R. Tolkien

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. — Marie Dressler

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns

All I want for my birthday is another birthday. - Ian Dury

All I want for my birthday is another birthday. — Ian Dury

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. — Billy Zane

Short 50th Birthday Quotes

  • Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday? — Prince
  • The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. — Robert Orben
  • You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. — Bob Hope
  • Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. — Brooks Robinson
  • My 50-year-old self is going to say chill out, relax, don’t stress so much. — Naval Ravikant
  • Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty. — Edward Hoagland
  • To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55. — Natalie Merchant

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Inspirational 50th Birthday Quotes

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. — Jean Renoir

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. — Maya Angelou

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. — Pablo Picasso

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. — Agatha Christie

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point? — Jim Carrey

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty. — Muhammad Ali

Happy 50th Birthday Quotes

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. — Mark Twain

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum! — Abraham Lincoln

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum! — Helen Hayes

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday! — Franklin P. Adams

As it's your 50th birthday The very best of cheers to you Truthfully, I'm just being selfish Coz now I am so cheerful, too Happy, Cheerful Birthday — John Walter Bratton

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! — T. S. Eliot

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday! — Bill Cosby

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s. — Richard Griffiths

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday! — Dave Barry

My 50th Birthday Quotes

I reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in my life, not in terms of celebration but in terms of retrospect. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary. — Graeme Murphy

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age. — Amanda Seyfried

Many massacres have happened when people yell "surprise"! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die? — Christopher Titus

Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday. — Eric Massa

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age. — Richard Armour

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50. — Marcia Gay Harden

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. — Vivienne Westwood

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine. — Ogden Nash

Turning 50 Quotes

There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe - without swords, without guns, without conquests. The 50 million Muslims of Europe will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Only a few things are really important. — Marie Dressler

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70! — Mark Lowry

Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence. — Dawn French

Love comes in every color, but the fact is... I never needed 50 Shades of Grey, Just turn the lights down low and give me every shade of blackness. — Phonte

Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows. — William Jefferson Clinton

It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it. — Muhammad Ali

About the time I turned 50, I experienced the profound biological change that often accompanies women at that age. Also, I put two kids in college and lost both of my parents, so I'm no longer somebody's daughter. — Jane Pauley

Wedding Anniversary Quotes

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. — Irwin Corey

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? — Dorothy Parker

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine. — Maya Angelou

Two human loves make one divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Corpses and annoying guests stink by the third day — Mexican Proverbs

The Japanese have a word for it. It's Judo - the art of conquering by yielding. The Western equivalent of Judo is, "Yes dear". — J. P. Mcevoy

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. - Arthur Conan Doyle

You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first. — Brian Dean

Six happy years together Such a perfect matching You're entering the 7 year itch zone This is no time for scratching — John Walter Bratton

Milestone Birthday Quotes

Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change. — Molly Keane

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. — Alexander Pope

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. — Francis Spellman

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. — Jim Bishop

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. — Katharine Hepburn

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20. — Sandra Bullock

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory. — Susan B. Anthony

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax. — Keith Waterhouse

Celebrate Birthday Quotes

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom

I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that. — Sadie Sink

I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is. — 21 Savage

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. — Ja Rule

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. — Buddy Valastro

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No. I just gotta focus on making money. Cause ain’t no going back. I’m gonna be famous forever. — Cardi B

Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much. — Khabib Nurmagomedov

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. — David Horowitz

I’m just the same guy. I don’t need to be a celebrity or a superstar. — Kawhi Leonard

Turning Fifty Quotes

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. — George Eliot

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. — Thomas Beecham

Some people will like it [Fifty Shades of Grey] and some won't. I have other movies coming up, this is not what my whole life turns around. — Dakota Johnson

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since. — John Muir

In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel. — Robert Klein

There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper. — Adam Rapp

I turn my girl on like fifty shades of grey. — Drew Chadwick

When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them. — Nicole Williams

Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your 'better half' Of fifty years is there in bed. And you're praying God takes you instead. Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blink. — Kenny Chesney

Just because of that one disastrous blind date she had last year, where the guy turned out to be fifty-nine, not thirty-nine (He claimed it was a typo. Yeah, I’m sure his finger just happened to slip two spaces to the left). — Sophie Kinsella

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More 50th Birthday Quotes

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. — Casey Stengel

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. — William Shakespeare

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. — Maria Sharapova

How to celebrate the 50th birthday: Go on your knees and thank God (Jesus Christ) for the life of T.B. Joshua. Pray for the Church of God for a strong bond of love. Pray for your nation and the whole world. As you rededicate yourself to the acts of giving for the rest of your life, God bless you. Happy Birthday! — T. B. Joshua

The spirit should never grow old. — John Kenneth Galbraith

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J. B. Priestley

You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist. — Red Skelton

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again. — Ang Lee

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything. — Vivienne Westwood

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years. — Bob Geldof

I think I'm past the age of getting lost. — Amanda Seyfried

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over. — Marianne Williamson

For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram. — Steven Wright

For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends. — Dar Williams

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