Humorous Birthday Quotes
This collection of humorous birthday quotes is sure to get a laugh. Better hope the recipient has a good sense of humor.
Aging
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
~ Jennifer Yane
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.
~ Malcolm Cowley
Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
~ Unknown
If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
~ Ubie Blake
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
~ Anthony Powell
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
~ Sir Norman Wisdom
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
~ Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
~ Leo Rosenberg
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles Schultz
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
~ Anthony Powell
"They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body."
~ Unknown
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
Of late I appearTo have reached that stage When people who look oldWho are only my age.
~ Richard Armour
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.
~ Golda Meir
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Birthday Games
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Celebrate
Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
~ Unknown
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
~ George Santayana
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
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First Sign of Maturity
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
~ Jerry M. Wright
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Forgetting Wive's Birthday
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
~ H. V. Prochnow
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~ Chili Davis
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
~ Anna Magnani
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~ Arnold Palmer
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
~ John P. Grier
Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?
~ Bobby Kelton
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
~ Phyllis Diller
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
~ Plato
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
~ Robert Frost
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang "Happy Birthday."
~ Stephen Wright
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
~ Bernard M. Baruch
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
~ Henry L. Mencken
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
~ Katherine Hepburn
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Mark Twain
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
~ Billie Burke
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
~ Bishop Richard Cumberland
Getting old ain't for sissies.
~ Betty Davis
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
~ Bob Hope
Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.
~ Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~ Dorothy Fulheim
"The first hundred years are the hardest."
~ Wilson Mizner
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
~ Robert Orben
The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.
~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
~ John Glenn
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
~ Reverend Larry Lorenzoni
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Men
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it.
~ Chinese proverb
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
~ Unkown
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
~ C.E.M. Joad
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Middle Age
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
~ Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~ Don Marquis
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
~ Franklin Pierce Adams
Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
~ Anthony Powell
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
~ Chili Davis
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
~ Jennifer Yane
At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
~ John Andrew Holmes
Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
~ Bennett Cerf
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Over the Hill Games
Over the Hill Bingo
This Bingo game is pre-filled with all those hysterical reminders of getting older, like trifocals and dentures.
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Over the Hill Decade Decoder
Here's the game that will have even the history buffs scrambling to be the first to finish! Who will know which decade 'Streaking' was a fad, or when the board game 'Monopoly' was introduced?
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What song is "It's past the expected time" referring to anyway?
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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.
~ Chinese proverb
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Quotes by Famous People
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
~ Anna Magnani
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~ Arnold Palmer
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
~ Bette Midler
Getting old ain't for sissies.
~ Betty Davis
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.
~ Bob Hope
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles Schultz
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
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
~ Doris 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!"
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
~ Frank Sinatra
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Jack Benny
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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
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
~ Joan Rivers
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
~ John Glenn
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.
~ Katherine Hepburn
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
~ Lucille Ball
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
~ Mark Twain
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
~ Mark Twain
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.
~ Mark Twain
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy with the chance;the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
~ Mark Twain
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
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.
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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.
~ Pablo Picasso
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
~ Phyllis Diller
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines.
~ Plato
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,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
~ Robert Frost
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
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Women
"A diplomat is a man
who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age."
~ Robert Frost
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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.
~ Molly Keane
Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
~ Robert Frost
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You Are Old When...
You're Getting Older When... Quote Game
Let the laughter begin as players compete to finish these famous quotes about getting older!
Will players be able to fill in the right word to complete this quote:
"When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only __?"
This very challenging game will have them rolling on the floor laughing as they race to finish first.
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.
~ R. C. Ferguson
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
~ Unknown
Of late I appearTo have reached that stageWhen people who look oldWho are only my age.
~ Richard Armour
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~ Arnold Palmer
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
~ Sir Norman Wisdom
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Youth
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
~ Dorothy Fulheim
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
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16th Birthday
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
~ Raymond Duncan
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
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18th Birthday
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
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21st Birthday
Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I've been doing since 15.
~ Unknown
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
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
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30th Birthday
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
~ Bette Midler
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
~ Robert Frost
When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.
~ Blair Sabol
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35th Birthday
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
~ Caryn Leschen
Thirty five is a very attractive age;London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
~ Oscar Wilde
Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.
~ Joel Hildebrand
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
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40th Birthday
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.
~ Colleen McCullough
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
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50th Birthday
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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
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammad Ali
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
~ Joan Rivers
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
~ Sophie Tucker
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
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60th Birthday
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.
~ Lord Hood
What, start at this! when sixty years have spreadTheir grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the worl so long in vain?
~ John Dryden
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70th Birthday
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful.
~ The Consolations of Age, translated from the German of Zschokke's autobiography
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!"
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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80th Birthday
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
~ Jean Renoir
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
~ Mark Twain
Oh to be seventy again.
~ Georges Clemenceau, upon seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday
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100th Birthday
The first hundred years are the hardest.
~ Wilson Mizner
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
~ Frank Sinatra
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