Quotes on Birthday

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.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

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.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

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

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

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

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

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

We can't reach old age by another man's road.