Quotations for Birthdays

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.  ~Dan Bennett


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.  ~Truman Capote


Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.  ~Bob Hope


First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.  ~Branch Rickey


Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith


I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997


You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.  ~Author Unknown


I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown


So mayst thou live, dear! many years,
In all the bliss that life endears,...
~Thomas Hood, "To My Daughter, On Her Birthday"


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  ~Robert Frost


Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.  ~Jean Paul Richter


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.  ~Lucille Ball


May you live to be a hundred years
With one extra year to repent.
~Author Unknown


Birthdays are good for you.  Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.  ~Larry Lorenzoni


Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.  ~Author Unknown


Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane


Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson