50th Birthday Quotes - Page 3

• We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Birthday, Men, Luxury

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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Tragedy, Aging

  Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1

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• I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Thinking, Age

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Singing

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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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• Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Office, Age

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• Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

  Muhammad Ali

  Birthday, Fighting, Years

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• After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

  Henry Green

  Birthday, Age, Fifty

  Henry Green (1992). “Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green”, Random House (UK)

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

  James A. Garfield

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

  Pope Paul VI

  Birthday, Age, Tunes

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• You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

  Sophocles

  Birthday, Men, Eugenics

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• Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

  Jean Paul

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Time

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Philosophical, Men

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• At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

  Abraham Lincoln

  Birthday, Hands, Cake

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• Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

  Richard Griffiths

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, Elderly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

  Bono

  Birthday, Dream, Song

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• I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Stars, Night, Lakes

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• As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

  Gore Vidal

  Birthday, Perfect, Progress

  The Observer, February 7, 1982.

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• Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Birthday, Philosophical

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• A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Birthday, Age, Finals

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.105, BookBaby

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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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• I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Birthday, Past, Thinking

  "Amanda Seyfried Is Perfectly Charming In The Film While We’re Young". Interview with Debra Wallace, pcmreviews.com.

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• I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

  Billy Graham

  Birthday, Age, Aging

  "I hope they'll say that he was faithful". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. June 23, 2005.

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• Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Birthday, Years, Bully

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