Birthdays And Aging Quotes - Page 4

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Birthday, Art, Lost Youth

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Birthday, Time, Years

Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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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

Birthday, Strong, Tired

Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”

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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Brigitte Bardot

Inspirational, Life, Sad

"Happy birthday, Brigitte Bardot" by Agnès Poirier, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2009.

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Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

Natalie Imbruglia

Sister, Letting Go, Brother

Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

Dave Barry

People, Age, There Comes A Time

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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin P. Adams

Birthday, Golf, Age

Nods and Becks (1944)

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My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

Mark Twain

Birthday, Growing Up, Age And Youth

Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Harrison Ford

Birthday, Fun, Book

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You're only as old as you feel.

Paul Simonon

Happy Birthday, Birthday Wishes, Funny Aging

Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com

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Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Irvin S. Cobb

Birthday, Age, Emotion

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The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Alberto Giacometti

Solitude, Listening, Age

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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, 50th Birthday

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Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Maggie Kuhn

Confusion, Age, Body

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Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Byron Katie

Sister, Daughter, Brother

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To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Birthday, Years, Age

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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Sam Ewing

Funny, Birthday, Hilarious

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life, Birthday, Humorous

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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Francis Bacon

Birthday, Time, Men

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Life, Birthday, Leadership

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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Satchel Paige

Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Ann Landers

Funny, Uplifting, Retirement

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Mark Twain

Birthday, Growing Up, Memories

"Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907

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Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Ernest Myers

Happy Birthday, Years, Inspirational Birthday

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Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

Funny, Witty, Crazy

Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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