Birthday Quotes

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

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.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

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

The United States is the only country with a known birthday.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Live your life to the fullest.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

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.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

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.

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.

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.

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

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

On this special Fathers Day, we'd like to wish all of you a very Happy Birthday.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.

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.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

My birthday was Monday, now I finally get to go home and enjoy it with some Burger King. Here I come baby! Burger King! Burger King!

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.