Explore Quotes on 20th Birthday

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

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

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

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

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