50th Birthday Quotes

• The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Birthday, Two Sides, Heyday

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• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

  Joey Adams

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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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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• Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Years, Age

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

  Bill Cosby

  Birthday, Opportunity, Naps

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• Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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• There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

  Muhammad Ali

  Birthday, Turning 50, People

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• By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  Marie Dressler

  Birthday, Maturity, Turning 50

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Birthday, People, Age

  Twitter post from Mar 24, 2015

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• 50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

  Jim Carrey

  Birthday, Love Is, Years

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• Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  Pope John XXIII

  Birthday, Drinking, Wine

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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• Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Age, Important

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• There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Birthday, Dance

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [348]

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• Gray hair is God's graffiti.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, God, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Fifty, Faces

  Notebook, 17 Apr. 1949. These were Orwell's last words in his notebook. He died on 21 Jan. 1950, at the age of forty-six.

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• Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Age, Today

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• The spirit should never grow old.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wrinkles, Age, Spirit

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• Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Memories, Ironic

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

  Agatha Christie

  Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, Age

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• You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

  John Mayer

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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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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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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• Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

  Kin Hubbard

  Birthday, Fun, Cost

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