Quotes on 20th Birthday

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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

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

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

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.

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

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.