50th Birthday Quotes - Page 2

• At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Clever

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

  Tom Wilson

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Wisdom

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• At 50 you now have realized
  ?Getting old isn't fair?
  And that it's hard to make a comeback
  ?When you haven't gone anywhere

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Age, Gone

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• If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

  Pat Robertson

  Birthday, Order, Age

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, transcripts.cnn.com. October 9, 2005.

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• The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

  Dave Barry

  Birthday, Simple, Men

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.264, Ballantine Books

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• Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Birthday, Wine, Turning 50

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• She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

  J. B. Priestley

  Beauty, Years, Age

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• As it's your 50th birthday
  The very best of cheers to you
  Truthfully, I'm just being selfish
  Coz now I am so cheerful, too
  Happy, Cheerful Birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Cheer, Selfish

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  When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Birthday, Baseball

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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

  Franz Kafka

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Inspirational Birthday

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• Now is the age of anxiety.

  W. H. Auden

  Birthday, Anxiety, Age

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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  T. S. Eliot

  Birthday, Optimism, Age

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• Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

  Dorothy Parker

  Birthday, Age, May

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• Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Birthday, Age, Tonight

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• We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

  Aldous Huxley

  Age, Genius, Aging

  Aldous Huxley (1924). “Young Archimedes: and other stories”, H. Doran

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• At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Laughing, Age

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• Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Age, Youth

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• Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Birthday, People, Age

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Hard Work, Age

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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• To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Educational, Philosophy

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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