20th Birthday Quotes

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

Lucille Ball

Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Robert Southey

Funny Birthday, Years, Long

'The Doctor' (1812) ch. 130

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May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

Happy Birthday, Music, Funny Birthday

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Theodore Roosevelt

Dream, Regret, Age

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Voltaire

Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

Funny, Birthday, Beauty

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It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

Melanie Laurent

Growing Up, Grows, Seems

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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Hervey Allen

Age, Five Senses, Thirty

Hervey Allen (1933). “Anthony Adverse”

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School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

Avril Lavigne

School, Rest Of Your Life, Teach

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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Bob Hope

Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

Birthday, Health, Medicine

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I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.

Emma Watson

Party, Groups, Single Picture

"Emma Watson In ‘Marie Claire’: Talks Working Childhood, ‘Protective’ College Classmates", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2010.

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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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

Birthday, Time, Maturity

Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

Birthday, Fortune Cookie, Age

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At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Jim Bishop

Birthday, Friendly, Looks

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Robert Frost

Funny, Birthday, Time

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A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Arnold Bennett

Birthday, Retirement, Years

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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

Birthday, Keys, Experience

"And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.

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Time and tide wait for no man.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Albert Schweitzer

Birthday, Truth, Men

Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.18, Open Road Media

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You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Henry Ford

Birthday, Running, Men

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Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

Alex James

Party, Appreciate, Drug

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For my 20th birthday in March, I'll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

Ai Yazawa

Guitar, Needs, Way

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