Birthday Quotes - Let's Celebrate

Pick out the most suitable quote on birthday, and use it in your greeting cards, letters, scrapbooks to express your light-hearted, encouraging or warm wishes for that special someone.

Why do we celebrate birthdays? Henri J. M. Nouwen has a very good reason you might agree with, "Celebrating a birthday is exalting life and being glad for it. On a birthday, we do not say: 'Thanks for what you did, or said, or accomplished.' No, we say: 'Thank you for being born and being among us.' Celebrating a birthday reminds us of the goodness of life."

So have fun and enjoy these birthday quotes and spread some cheer by using them!

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.
-- Robert Benchley

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

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
-- Jack Benny

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
-- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
-- Anon

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
-- French proverb

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.
-- Jean De La Fontaine

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

I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.
-- Anonymous

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Bishop Richard Cumberland

Life begins at forty.
-- W. B. Pitkin

Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
-- Pope John XXIII

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

My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
-- Christine Rossetti

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

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

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
-- Anna Magnani

Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.
-- Anonymous

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
-- Martin Buxbaum

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

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
-- H. V. Prochnow

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.
-- Colleen McCullough

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
-- Oprah Winfrey

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

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-- Lucille ball

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
-- Margaret Fuller

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. - Brigitte Bardot

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

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense.
-- Maya Angelou

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

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore

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.

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

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