There is still no cure for the common birthday. — John Glenn
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
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. — Abhishek Bachchan
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future. — Aesop
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. — William Butler Yeats
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. — Jean Paul Richter
Aging is for people who don't know any better. — Tony Horton
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. — Robert Orben
Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita — Maxine
If you're not getting older, you're dead. — Tom Petty
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
Aging is a disease and that disease is treatable. — David Sinclair
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. — Seneca
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. — Seneca
Aging has 100% mortality rate and no one cares. — Andrej Karpathy
Short Birthdays And Aging Quotes
Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar. — John Glenn
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. — Chili Davis
Say what you want about aging,
it's still the only way to have old friends. — Robert Breault
Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional. — Bob Monkhouse
All I want for my birthday is another birthday. — Ian Dury
Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. — Gary Brecka
Live your life and forget your age. — Norman Vincent Peale
Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. — Yoko Ono
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. — Bob Hope
Birthdays And Aging Image Quotes
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Birthdays And Aging Quotes
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. — Sting
Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. — Ogden Nash
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. — Dave Barry
Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. — Byron Katie
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
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
One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. — Edith Wharton
I think ageing is challenging, surprising, fun, and full of friendship, so that is the approach I’ll take, objecting to the stigmatization of ageing in so many modern societies. — Martha C. Nussbaum
We turn not older with years but newer every day. — Emily Dickinson
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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 like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. — Theodore Roosevelt
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. — Steven Wright
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. — Jim Davis
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Aging Birthday Wishes Quotes
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo — Dana Rosemary Scallon
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it. — Eva Gabor
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
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. — Malcolm Cowley
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do. — Phyllis Diller
If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people. — Anthony
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom
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
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. — Jean Renoir
Only a few things are really important. — Marie Dressler
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Theodore Roosevelt
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. — Samuel Ullman
I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever want to be ugly and old. I'm an old lady now anyhow. I'm 80. There's nothing left. I've already lived a whole lifetime. I'm going out. In a blaze of glory. — Nancy Spungen
When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
If there’s anything I like to do in my old age, it’s f*k a lot of melons. — Markiplier
Birthday Humor Quotes
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for. — Will Rogers
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. — Johnny Carson
At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. — H. H. Asquith
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. — Herbert V. Prochnow
I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones
I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!" — Jimmy Carr
At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass — Mark Twain
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. — Alexander Pope
I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother. — Rita Rudner
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. — Euripides
Aging And Wisdom Quotes
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age — Jawaharlal Nehru
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world. — Sufyan al-Thawri
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. — Paul Klee
I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts. — Deborra-Lee Furness
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it. — Truman Capote
Maybe if you're younger you have more energy - but that's a big maybe. Because at this stage of life, I have more patience, understanding, wisdom, resources - and a husband. I didn't get him until I was 39. But I got a good one. — Angela Bassett
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. — Abigail Van Buren
Accepting Aging Quotes
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! — Edwin Louis Cole
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept. — David Sinclair
The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age. — Marshall McLuhan
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." — Swami Vivekananda
I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. — Myrlie Evers-Williams
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous. — John Ashbery
We can change our lives for the better, and always have. We used to think pain during surgery and dying during childbirth were inevitable. We no longer accept that, and we shouldn't just accept aging. — David Sinclair
The face of an old woman can't be hidden even if she scrubbed it off with a scratch pad. — Moroccan Proverbs
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out. — Michael Sheen
Age Is Relative Quotes
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve. — Frederick Douglass
Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase. — Paul Stamets
The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded. — Michael Cera
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness." — Sylvester Stallone
My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all? — Michael J. Fox
I am well aware of the fact that the human race has known about the existence of a universal energy related to life for many ages. However, the basic task of natural science consisted of making this energy usable. This is the sole difference between my work and all preceding knowledge. — Wilhelm Reich
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do.
At age 60. — Paul Dirac
The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda. — Pete Coors
Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise. — Margaret Mead
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. — Edward Sapir
Celebrate Birthday Quotes
Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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 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
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
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
I’m just the same guy. I don’t need to be a celebrity or a superstar. — Kawhi Leonard
I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener. — Liz Truss
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality. — Shimon Peres
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde
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
My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. — Arnold Bennett
Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! — Audrey Hepburn
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. — Pablo Picasso
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. — A. N. Wilson
We can't reach old age by another man's road. — Mark Twain
Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock. — Ronald Reagan
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
There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful. — Rene Russo
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
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
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. — Ben Stein
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years. — J. B. Priestley
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear. — Paul H. Dunn
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
There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11. — Dave Barry
Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows. — Betty Friedan
One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. — Daniel Handler
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30. — Helena Bonham Carter
Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did. — Jenny McCarthy
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