Birthday Quotes - Page 25

• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Running, People, Laughing

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Time, Mind

  William Wordsworth, “Fountain, The: A Conversation”

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Time, Night

  'To a Young Lady' (1802)

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• At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Careers, Age

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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

  Hands, Cake, Two

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

  Dave Barry

  Age, Today, Aging

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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

  Years, Age, Today

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• I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sorry, Memories, Heart

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

  Muhammad Ali

  Turning 50, People, Stressful

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• Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

  John M. Lyle

  Wrinkles, Color, Faces

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• No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

  Katy Perry

  Regret, Forever, Young

  Song: Teenage Dream

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• Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you.

  Ray Charles

  Romantic, Dream, Eye

  Song: Georgia On My Mind

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• Old age is not for sissies.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Age, Sissy, Elegy

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Laughter, Laughing

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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

  George William Curtis

  Friends, Years, Elderly

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

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• People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

  George Burns

  Retirement, People, Appreciate

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• The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

  Richard J. Needham

  Men, Age, Pills

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• I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Years, Years Ago

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• Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

  Ronald Reagan

  Home, Two, Temptation

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words”

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• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Funny, Laughter

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• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Age, Faces

  Robert Browning (1872). “In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances”, p.141

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• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Age, Sentimental

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• Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

  James Buchan

  Order, Challenges, Age

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• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Running, Average, Selling More

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• In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

  Artie Lange

  Retirement, Party, Names

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