Quotes on Birthday

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning._x000D_ _x000D_ At thirty, I stood firm._x000D_ _x000D_ At forty, I had no doubts._x000D_ _x000D_ At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven._x000D_ _x000D_ At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth._x000D_ _x000D_ At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.