– Birthday Proverbs –
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
~ Dorothy Thompson
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
~ Jennifer Yane
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~ Tom Wilson
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
~ Jack Benny
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
~ Larry Lorenzoni
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Frost
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
~ Anon
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
~ Pope John XXIII
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
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
~ Jean Renoir
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
~ Bob Hope
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
~ Truman Capote
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~ Chili Davis
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
We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
~ Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~ John Glenn
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear…
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
~ Martial
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
~ Jean Renoir
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~ Jean Paul Richter
I remember when the candle shop burned down.Everyone stood around singing ‘Happy Birthday’.
~ Steven Wright
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
~ Robert Orben
When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.
~ Blair Sabol
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
~ Lucy Larcom
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
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn’t have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.
~ Robert Brault
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
~ Martin Buxbaum
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
~ Author Unknown
The Best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
~ H. V. Prochnow
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
~ English Proverb
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
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
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
~ Erma Bombeck
