Quotes on 50th Birthday

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

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.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.