Birthday Quotes

Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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?

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.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

At my age flowers scare me.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

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?

She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".

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

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.

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.]

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Old age is not for sissies.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

Thanks for all the birthday love! I feel like the luckiest girl in the world today!

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

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

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

Rocket ships are exciting but so are roses on a birthday.

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.

It’s my birthday, Horus insisted. Wish me happy birthday! “Happy birthday!” I yelled. “Now shut up!

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.