Famous Birthday QuotesSearch this collection of famous birthday quotes and find out what movie stars, celebrities, sports heroes, comedians, authors, and other famous people have to say about birthdays and getting older.Famous Birthday Quotes IndexAbraham Lincoln"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."~ Abraham Lincoln Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Alexander Pope"Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind." ~ Alexander Pope Anna Magnani"Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them."~ Anna Magnani Arnold Palmer"You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them."~ Arnold Palmer Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Benjamin Franklin"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment."~ Benjamin Franklin Bette Midler"After 30, a body has a mind of its own."~ Bette Midler Betty Davis"Getting old ain't for sissies."~ Betty Davis Bob Hope"You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."~ Bob Hope "Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning." Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Brigitte Bardot"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen."~ Brigitte Bardot Chales Schultz"Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."~ Charles Schultz Coco Chanel"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."~ Coco Chanel Doris Day"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it."~ Doris Day Eleanor Roosevelt"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."~ Eleanor Roosevelt "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!'" Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Emily Dickinson"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."~ Emily Dickinson Euripides"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."~ Euripides F. Scott Fitzgerald"When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself."~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Frank Sinatra"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."~ Frank Sinatra Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Fred Astaire"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."~ Fred Astaire George Orwell"At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves."~ George Orwell Goethe"Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."~ Goethe Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Henry Ford"You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it."~ Henry Ford Jack Benny"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."~ Jack Benny Jerry Seinfeld"Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing."~ Jerry Seinfeld Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Joan Rivers"Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty."~ Joan Rivers John Glenn"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."~ John Glenn Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Katherine Hepburn"If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building."~ Katherine Hepburn Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Lucille Ball"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."~ Lucille Ball Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Mahatma Gandhi"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever."~ Mahatma Gandhi Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Mark Twain"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."~ Mark Twain "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen." "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years." "The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance; Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Muhammad Ali"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."~ Muhammad Ali "Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are." Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr."You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Oprah Winfrey"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."~ Oprah Winfrey Pablo Picasso"One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late."~ Pablo Picasso "It takes a long time to become young." "Youth has no age." Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Phyllis Diller"I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do."~ Phyllis Diller Plato"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."~ Plato "The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines." Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes Robert Browning"Grow old along with me!The best is yet to be,..." ~ Robert Browning Robert Frost"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."~ Robert Frost "Time and Tide wait for no man, Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes T. S. Eliot"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."~ T. S. Eliot Virginia Woolf"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."~ Virginia Woolf William Shakespeare"To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I eye'd, Such seems your beauty still." ~ William Shakespeare Return to Index of Famous Birthday Quotes
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