60th Birthday Quotes
Enjoy this collection of 60th birthday quotes! Find that special quote to convey the "just right" message to that special person in your life who is having their landmark 60th birthday. 60th Birthday Quotes Index
Being 60"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."~ Arnold Bennett "Some people reach the age of sixty before others." "What, start at this! when sixty years have spread Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Celebrate"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip."~ Unknown "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words." "Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, "Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Friends"A true friend remembers your birthday but not your age."~ Unknown "To me, fair friend, you never can be old, "I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines." "Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Funny"If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."~ Ubie Blake "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." "Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?" "They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much." "Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." "First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." "Age is a number and mine is unlisted." "Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed." "Age is a high price to pay for maturity." "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes "The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it." ~ Golda Meir "Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?" "They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much." "Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own." "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." "First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down." "Age is a number and mine is unlisted." "Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed." "Age is a high price to pay for maturity." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes "You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." "Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." "Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional." "As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two." "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." "The secret to eternal youth is arrested development". "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." "They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body." "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." "From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Growing Old Gracefully"Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."~ Reverend Larry Lorenzoni "If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old." "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." "It is better to wear out than to rust out." "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." "Everyone is the age of their heart." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Inspirational"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."~ Eleanor Roosevelt "Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." "To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am." "Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change." "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives." "Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." "You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older." "We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." "No wise man ever wished to be younger." "Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life." "It is not how old you are, but how you are old." "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." "Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are." "May you live all the days of your life." "We are always the same age inside." "The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet." "A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Men"Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs."~ Unknown "Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it." "Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Proverbs"We grow too soon old and too late smart."~ Pennsylvania Dutch proverb "Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it." "Everyone is the age of their heart." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Quotes by Famous People"Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind." ~ Alexander Pope "Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them." "You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them." "Getting old ain't for sissies." "You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." "It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen." "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art." "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!'" "We turn not older with years, but newer every day." "Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young." "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." "For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." "Age is whatever you think it is." You are as old as you think you are." "One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late." "It takes a long time to grow young." "I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do." "Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many." "The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines." "Grow old along with me! "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." 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." "To me, fair friend, you never can be old, Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Spiritual"There is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven."~ Bible Ecclesiastes 3:1 "Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again." "Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes
Women"Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs."~ Unknown "Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change." Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes You Know You Are Getting Old When...“You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”~ Bob Hope “A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.” “We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.” “You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.” Return to Index of 60th Birthday Quotes Return to Happy Birthday Quotes - from 60th Birthday Quotes Return to Inspiration Oasis Home Page
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