Inspirational Birthday Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

  Molly Keane

  Birthday, Light, Kitchen

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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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• When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House

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• The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

  Pope Paul VI

  Birthday, Age, Tunes

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

  Ernest Myers

  Happy Birthday, Years, Age

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• Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.

  Erich Fromm

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Men

  Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4

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  Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Birthday, Beauty, Life Changing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Growing Up

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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  We turn not older with years but newer every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  Sammy Hagar

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Years

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• Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• Those whom the gods love grow young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Birthday, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.167, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy Birthday

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  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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  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 more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

  Donald Justice

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)

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• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

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