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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• After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

  Bette Midler

  Funny Birthday, Mind, Age

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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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• 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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• Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
  Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
  But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
  Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

  Martial

  Birthday, Believe, Giving

  Martial (1907). “Epigrams”

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Birthday, Years, Age

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

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Birthday, Age, Emotion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You're only as old as you feel.

  Paul Simonon

  Happy Birthday, Birthday Wishes, Funny Aging

  Source: rocknycliveandrecorded.com

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

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Listening, Age

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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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