Old Birthday Quotes

• Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

  Franz Kafka

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Inspirational Birthday

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• Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

  Anna Magnani

  Funny, Birthday, Humorous

  "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  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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• Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Happy Birthday to You!". Book by Dr. Seuss, 1959.

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• What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Birthday, Beautiful, Wise

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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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• I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.

  Phyllis Diller

  Cute, Birthday, Funny Relationship

  Phyllis Diller (1981). “The joys of aging--and how to avoid them: can sex keep you young? And other silly questions”, Doubleday Books

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• The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

  Colleen McCullough

  Birthday, Appreciation, Women

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

  George Sand

  Birthday, Soul, Age

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• Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Birthday, Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Birthday, Missing You, Mind

  Malcolm Cowley (1982). “The view from 80”, Penguin Books, 1982

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• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Birthday, Men, Littles

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• Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

  Luis Bunuel

  Funny, Cheese Sandwiches, 50th Birthday

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• This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Birthday, Wine, Years

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

  Joey Adams

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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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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• 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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• Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Birthday, Growing Up, Getting Older

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

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• You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Blow

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