Famous Birthday Wishes Collection
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain
No wise man ever wished to be younger. – Jonathan Swift
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. – Bob Hope
We grow too soon old and too late smart. – Pennsylvania Dutch proverb
We are always the same age inside. – Gertrude Stein
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard
The first hundred years are the hardest. – Wilson Mizner
You’ve heard of the three ages of man – youth, age, and “you are looking wonderful.” – Francis Cardinal Spellman
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. – John P. Grier
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille Ball
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. – Marget Fuller
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed. – Anthony Powell
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
Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life. – Robert Southey
Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. – Robert Frost
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own. – J. P. Sears
My birthday!–what a different sound.That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round,Less and less white its mark appears. – Thomas Moore
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. – C.E.M. Joad
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. – Mark Twain
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do. – Phyllis Diller
Keep true to the dream of thy youth. – Friedrich Von Schiller
Robert Frost said “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” Happy Birthday!
The old believe everything? the middle-aged suspect everything? the young know everything. – Oscar Wilde
First you forget names? then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly? and then you forget to unzip your fly. – Branch Rickey
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. – Fred Astaire
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang “Happy Birthday.” – Stephen Wright
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. – Lucille ball
Born on Monday, Fair in face; Born on Tuesday, Full of God’s grace? Born on Wednesday, Sour and sad? Born on Thursday, Merry and glad? Born on Friday, Worthily given? Born on Saturday, Work hard for your living? Born on Sunday, You will never know want. – Anonymous
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet. – Robert Orben
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
Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them. – Anna Magnani
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. – George Harrison
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. -Brigitte Bardot
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler-quieter, warmer. – Dag Hammarskjold
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake. – Edward Morykwas
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. – Groucho Marx
Youth comes but once in a lifetime. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye. – William Butler Yeats
The more things change, the more they remain the same. – Alphonse Karr
We turn not older with years, but newer every day. – Emily Dickinson
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. – Unkown
It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. – Brigitte Bardot
May you have love that never ends, lots of money and lots of friends. Health be yours, whatever you do and may God send many blessings to you. Irish Blessings quotes
Getting old ain’t for sissies. – Bette Davis
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. – Plautus
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. William Shakespeare quotes
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. – Lucy Larcom
Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. – Goethe
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. – Maurice Chevalier
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. – English Proverb
I intend to live forever — so far, so good! – Stephen Wright
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. – Seneca
Birthdays? yes, in a general way; For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day: So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then? – James Kenneth Stephen
Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere. — George Burns
Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece? – Bobby Kelton
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