Famous Birthday Quotes
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50th and 60th Birthday Quote from Thomas Stearns Eliot, poet and dramatist:
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.
Birthday Quote from Virginia Woolf, British novelist and essayist:
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.
40th Birthday Quote from Voltaire, French philosopher:
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Birthday Quote from Anthony Powell, British novelist:
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
60th Birthday Quote from Arnold Bennett, British novelist:
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
20th, 30th and 40th Birthday Quote from Benjamin Franklin, famous politician and scientist:
At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, and at 40 the judgment.
30th Birthday Quote from Bette Midler, American singer and actress:
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
Birthday Quote from Cato, Roman statesman:
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.
Scary Birthday Quote from Christian Furchtegott Gellert, German poet:
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
Birthday Quote from Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, English personality:
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Wise 40th Birthday Quote from Edward Young, English poet:
Be wise with speed: A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Birthday Quote from Eileen Caddy, spiritual leader:
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
Birthday Quote from Eubie Blake, composer and pianist:
If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
40th Birthday Quote from George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright:
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Funny 50th Birthday Quote from George Orwell, British author and journalist:
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
30th Birthday Quote from Georges Clemenceau, French physician and statesman:
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Wise Birthday Quote from Jean de la Bruyere, French moralist:
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
50th and 60th Birthday Quote from Joan Rivers, American comedian:
Looking fifty is great. If you are sixty.
Funny Birthday Quote from John Glenn, astronaut and former senator:
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
Funny Birthday Quote from Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist:
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Reality Check Birthday Quote from Lewis Carroll, English author:
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents.
Funny Birthday Quote from Mark Twain, famous writer:
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Quality Birthday Quote from Martin Luther King Jr., famous leader and political activist:
The quality, not the longevity of one’s life is what is important.
Optimistic Birthday Quote from Maurice Chevalier, French singer:
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
Birthday Quote from Muhammad Ali, famous boxer:
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
35th Birthday Quote from Oscar Wilde, Irish novelist:
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.
60th Birthday Quote from Pablo Picasso, famous Spanish painter:
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
Painful Birthday Quote from Phyllis Diller, American comedian:
I’m at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
Diplomatic Birthday Quote from Robert Frost, American poet:
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Birthday Quote from Robert Orben, magician and comedy writer:
The best birthdays of all are those that have not arrived yet.
20th Birthday Quote from Robert Southey, English poet:
Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Wise Birthday Quote from Seneca, Roman orator:
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Birthday Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese monk:
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
