Birthdays And Aging Quotes:

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

- Chili Davis

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Growing, Inspirational Age, Older People

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

- Luis Bunuel

topic: Funny, Age, Matter, Old Birthday, Funny Birthday

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

- Norman Wisdom

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Birthday, Memories, Memory Loss, Birthday Cake

We are always the same age inside.

- Gertrude Stein

source: "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

topic: Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Birthday, Grateful, Mind, Milestone Birthday, 40th Birthday

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Birthday, Age, May, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Ageing

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

- Sophia Loren

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Life, Birthday, Uplifting, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

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.

- George Eliot

topic: Funny, Happy Birthday, Time, Milestone, Milestone Birthday

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Birthday, Happiness, Laughter, Happier Life, Birthday Cake

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up, Humorous Birthday, Middle Aged

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

- Jean Paul

topic: Birthday, Time, Wings, Birthday Cake, Old Birthday

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

- Phyllis Diller

source: Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

topic: Cute, Birthday, Funny Relationship, Humorous Birthday, Old Age Humor

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

- Germaine Greer

topic: Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness, Humorous Birthday, Mature And Immature

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Birthday, Tunes, 60th Birthday, Milestone Birthday, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

- Bob Hope

topic: Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational, Old Jokes, Celebrate Birthday

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Congratulations, Age, Humorous Birthday, Inspirational Age

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

source: "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

topic: Birthday, Confidence, Self, Staying Young, Inspirational Age

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

- H. H. Asquith

source: In Observer 15 Apr. 1923

topic: Birthday, Would Be, Littles, Funny Retirement, Wise Birthday

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

- Don Marquis

topic: Birthday, Time, Men, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Middle Ages

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

- Robert Frost

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Carpe Diem, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Birthday, Time, Growing Up, Milestone Birthday, 30th Birthday

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

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Wise, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Philosophical, Years, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

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

- Robert Frost

topic: Funny, Birthday, Time, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

Time and tide wait for no man.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Time, Humorous Birthday, Managing Time

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Happy Birthday, Time, Children, Young Mother, Wonderful Experience

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Good Morning, Indication, Staying Young

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

- Golda Meir

topic: Funny, Birthday, Women, Humorous Birthday, Milestone Birthday

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Birthday, Friends, Time, Milestone Birthday, 60th Birthday

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Youth, Capacity, Inspirational Beauty, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

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

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older, Humorous Birthday, Old Birthday

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

topic: Birthday, Years, Special, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Celebrate Birthday

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

topic: Self Confidence, Self, Doubt, Old Soldiers, Growing Old

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

- Anouk Aimee

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Beauty, Real, Age, Inspirational Age, Elders

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Funny, Birthday, Beauty, Makeup And Beauty, Staying Young

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

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Inspirational, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

source: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other matters”

topic: Birthday, Hope, Heart, Inspirational Age, Grandkids

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

- Maurice Chevalier

source: Quoted in James B. Simpson, Contemporary Quotations (1964)

topic: Funny, Birthday, Health, Humorous Birthday, Staying Young

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

topic: Past, Long, Intellectual, Intellectual Curiosity, Unafraid

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

- Pope Paul VI

topic: Inspirational, Years, Hair, Growing Older, Birthdays And Aging

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

- Doris Lessing

source: The Sunday Times (London), May 10, 1992.

topic: Birthday, Time, Years, Elders, Growing Old

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Inspirational Age, Emily

Old age is not for sissies.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Birthday, Age, Sissy, Elegy, Funny Birthday

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

source: "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful, Inspirational Age, Beauty Of Life

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

- Voltaire

topic: Birthday, Loss, Aggravation, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Happy Birthday, Truth, Real, Irish Proverbs, Funny Happy Birthday

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

- Leon Trotsky

topic: Inspirational, Men, Age, Unexpected Things, Inspirational Age

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Staying Young, Inspirational Age