Birthday Quotes

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn

"To me old age is 15 years older than I am."
Bernard M. Baruch

"New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday."
Charles Lamb

"I wish you happiness and joy in life
And many more birthdays to bring you delight."
Birthday Saying, from Happy Birthday Poems

For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday."
John Glenn

"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." Menachem Mendel Schneerson

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
French Proverb

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." Ogden Nash

"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip!" Author Unknown

"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." John Mason

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

"From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye." William Butler Yeats

"No wise man ever wished to be younger." Jonathan Swift

"Everything I know I learned after I was thirty." Georges Clemenceau

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

"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." Maurice Chevalier

"We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it." Author Unknown

"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important." Martin Luther King, Jr

"Forty's kind of like New Year's. It's an age to think about what you've done up till now, and what you ought to do in the future." Eric Berne

"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we’ll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end." Richard Bach

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." George Bernard Shaw

"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune." English Proverb

"You're not getting older, you're getting better." Author Unknown

"One today is worth two tomorrows." Benjamin Franklin

"Forty isn't fatal." Linda Evans

"The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet." Robert Orben

"No wise man ever wished to be younger." Jonathan Swift

"Forty always sound so important. The Big Four-O. It's halfway, or more, through life, but I find it so appealing. I've always wanted to be older." Elizabeth Taylor

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck." Carl Zuckmeyer

"No matter how often I tell people I'm thirty-nine some of them refuse to believe I'm that old." Jack Benny

"Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?" Bobby Kelton

"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary." Arthur Schopenhauer

"Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, and count each birthday with a grateful mind." Alexander Pope

"As long as there are birthday Gifts, I don’t mind celebrating my birthdays everyday." Birthday Saying

"At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage." John Andrew Holmes

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything." Oscar Wilde

"A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it." R. C. Ferguson

"When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents." Blair Sabol

"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy." >Dorothy Thompson

"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines." Oliver Goldsmith

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." Franz Kafka

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." Mark Twain

"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." Henri Frederic Amiel

"There is still no cure for the common birthday." John Glenn

"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred." Thomas Alva Edison

"The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love." Jean Renoir

"Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come." Lucy Larcom

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

"Some like Sunday some like Monday, but I like your birthday. Happy Birthday." Birthday Saying

"A birthday represents an anniversary of the day you were born, a date that is celebrated by most people. To other people it is a date that they would rather forget, but you are only as old as you feel!" Catherine Pulsifer

We hope you have enjoyed these birthday quotes. You may also be interested in our collection of Happy Birthday Poems