Birthday Quotes and Sayings

Famous Birthday Quotes

• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
  - Jean Paul Richter
• "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
• "Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of love."
  - Maureen Hawkins
• "They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body."
  - Anonymous
• "All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them."
  - Walt Disney
• "Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest."
  -Larry Lorenzoni
• "When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th."
  - Gloria Stuart
• "My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her."
  - Guy Johnson

• "They share a birthday and a name, but moods and tempers aren't the same. Although at times they may dispute, their loyalty is absolute."
  -Anonymous
• "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
  - George Harrison
• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
  - Plautus
• Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
  For the most if not for the best of men:
  You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
  So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
  - James Kenneth Stephen
• From our birthday, until we die,
  Is but the winking of an eye.
  - William Butler Yeats
• There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know.
  - Lewis Carroll
• We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
  - Emily Dickinson
• We are always the same age inside.
  - Gertrude Stein
• 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
• It takes a long time to become young.
  - Pablo Picasso
• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
  - English Proverb
• The birthday of my life
  Is come, my love is come to me.
  - Christina Georgina Rossetti

• No wise man ever wished to be younger.
  - Jonathan Swift
• 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
• The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
  - Marcus Cato
• May you live all the days of your life.
  - Jonathan Swift
• The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
  - Robert Orben
• Grow old along with me!
  The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. - Robert Browning

Funny Quotes

• Inside every older person is a younger person -
  wondering what the hell happened.
  - Cora Harvey Armstrong
• Oh to be seventy again.
  - Georges Clemenceau, upon seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday
• Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
  - Maurice Chevalier
• Getting old ain't for sissies.
  - Bette Davis
• Of late I appear
  To have reached that stage
  When people who look old
  Who are only my age.
  - Richard Armour

• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
  - Mark Twain
• I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
  - Phyllis Diller
• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's
  birthday but never remembers her age.
  - Robert Frost
• You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
  - John P. Grier
• If I'd known I was going to live this long (100 years),
  I'd have taken better care of myself.
  - Ubie Blake
• Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
  - C.E.M. Joad
• Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
  - J. P. Sears
• My birthday!--what a different sound
  That word had in my youthful ears;
  And how each time the day comes round,
  Less and less white its mark appears.
  - Thomas Moore
• Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
  - Tom Stoppard
• A birthday:—and now a day that rose
  With much of hope, with meaning rife—
  A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
  The middle day of human life.
  - Jean Ingelow
• If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
  - Euripides
• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
  for a crime you have not committed.
  - Anthony Powell
• Call this an unfair generalization if you must,
  but old people are no good at everything.
  - Moe, from the Simpsons

• Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
  - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
  - Ben Franklin
• Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
  - Robert Southey