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Famous Birthdays Quotes

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

There is still no cure for the common birthday. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Abhishek Bachchan

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future. β€” Aesop

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. β€” William Butler Yeats

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. β€” Jean Paul Richter

Aging is for people who don't know any better. β€” Tony Horton

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. β€” Robert Orben

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita β€” Maxine

If you're not getting older, you're dead. β€” 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. β€” Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Aging is a disease and that disease is treatable. β€” David Sinclair

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. β€” Seneca

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. β€” Seneca

Aging has 100% mortality rate and no one cares. β€” Andrej Karpathy

Short Birthdays Quotes

  • Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. β€” John Lennon
  • Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday? β€” Prince
  • Act your age, not your shoe size. β€” Prince
  • Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. β€” Mother Teresa
  • Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. β€” Dorothy Parker
  • Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. β€” William Wordsworth
  • We turn not older with years but newer every day. β€” Emily Dickinson
  • A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. β€” Douglas Pagels
  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. β€” Robert Frost
  • Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. β€” Jon Foreman

Birthdays Image Quotes

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. - Eva Herzigova quote

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. β€” Eva Herzigova

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. - Sammy Hagar quote

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. β€” Sammy Hagar

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. - Dan Brown quote

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. β€” Dan Brown

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

All I want for my birthday is another birthday. β€” Ian Dury

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. - Uwe Boll quote

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. β€” Uwe Boll

Birthdays And Aging Quotes

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. β€” 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. β€” Ogden Nash

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. β€” 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. β€” Dave Barry

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. - Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. β€” Byron Katie

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. β€” Casey Stengel

Time and tide wait for no man. - Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man. β€” Geoffrey Chaucer

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. β€” 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. β€” Martha C. Nussbaum

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. β€” Liz Truss

Old Age Birthday Quotes

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. β€” Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. β€” 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. β€” Steven Wright

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. β€” 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. β€” Jim Davis

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. β€” Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Only a few things are really important. β€” Marie Dressler

Aging Birthday Wishes Quotes

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo β€” Dana Rosemary Scallon

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

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it. β€” 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.] β€” 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. β€” Malcolm Cowley

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do. β€” Phyllis Diller

You're only as old as you feel. β€” Paul Simonon

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people. β€” 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. β€” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Old Birthday Quotes

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. β€” 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. β€” Ja Rule

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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Nancy Spungen

When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play. β€” Giannis Antetokounmpo

If there’s anything I like to do in my old age, it’s f*k a lot of melons. β€” Markiplier

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. β€” Jack Benny

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. β€” Frank Lloyd Wright

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. β€” Mark Twain

Birthday Humor Quotes

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for. β€” 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. β€” Johnny Carson

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

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. β€” Herbert V. Prochnow

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT β€” 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!" β€” Jimmy Carr

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

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. β€” 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. β€” Rita Rudner

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. β€” 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. β€” 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 β€” Jawaharlal Nehru

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Truman Capote

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. β€” Benjamin Disraeli

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. β€” 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. β€” 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! β€” Edwin Louis Cole

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings β€” Arthur Rubinstein

Unfortunately, because aging is so common and natural, we tend to think of it as destiny or something we should accept. β€” 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. β€” 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." β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” David Sinclair

The face of an old woman can't be hidden even if she scrubbed it off with a scratch pad. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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." β€” 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? β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Edward Sapir

Celebrate Birthday Quotes

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. β€” 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. β€” Cardi B

Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Embracing Aging Quotes

Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug. β€” Sayings

Exercise is remarkably beneficial for the brain. High fitness levels in midlife delayed dementia onset by 9.5 years in women. Larger brain volumes have also been linked to increased physical activity. Maintain youthful brain volume by embracing exercise. We can transform our brain health as we age. β€” Rhonda Patrick

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. β€” Peter Akinola

Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing; If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully - A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages. Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe! β€” Ikkyu

I am sent to you to confute, not to embrace your heresy. The Catholic religion is the faith of all ages, I fear not death. . . Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me. Mary, Mother of God, succor me! β€” Fidelis of Sigmaringen

I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings. β€” Mark Wahlberg

Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective. β€” Alan Hirsch

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy. β€” Olivia Munn

I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn. β€” Sayings

Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. β€” Andy Serkis

Milestone Birthday Quotes

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

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. β€” Molly Keane

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. β€” 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 fΓͺte. 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. β€” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

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

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. β€” Jim Bishop

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” 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. β€” Keith Waterhouse

Happy Birthday Quotes

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. β€” Jorge Luis Borges

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. β€” Agatha Christie

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday - Rob Jackson

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday β€” Rob Jackson

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. β€” Billy Mills

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. β€” Natasha Bedingfield

The golden age is before us, not behind us. β€” William Shakespeare

But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime. β€” Ernie Davis

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. β€” Aristotle Onassis

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. - George Burns

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. β€” George Burns

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira

Live your life to the fullest. β€” Shakira

Growing Old Quotes

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - George Bernard Shaw

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. β€” George Bernard Shaw

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live. And most people are concerned about growing old rather than being effective. β€” Myles Munroe

The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge. β€” Howard Thurman

Keep the Pineal Gland operating and you will Never grow Old, You will always be Young. β€” Edgar Cayce

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. β€” Louis XIV

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. β€” Franz Kafka

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. β€” Samuel Ullman

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years. β€” Zoroaster

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. β€” Aristotle

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age β€” Plato

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More Birthdays Quotes

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. β€” Steven Wright

As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there. β€” Gucci Mane

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. β€” Helen Rowland

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. β€” Jill Clayburgh

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one. β€” Brian Jones

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. β€” Douglas Coupland

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends β€” John Lennon

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. β€” Kurt Vonnegut

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