Old Birthday Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Congratulations, Age

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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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• Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Congratulations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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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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  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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• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

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

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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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• If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

  Euripides

  Birthday, Mistake, Knowledge

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• Today you are you! That is truer than true!

  Dr. Seuss

  Happy Birthday, Funny Birthday, Monday

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

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• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

  Robert Orben

  Birthday, Funny Birthday, Funny Happy Birthday

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• It’s better to wear out than rust out.

  David J. Schwartz

  Birthday, Rust, Labor

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.27, Penguin

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• Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Birthday, Second Chance, World

  Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26,

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• All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Birthday, Keys, Experience

  "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.

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• Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

  Margaret Fuller

  Birthday, Grows, Objects

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE

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• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Birthday, Lovely, Forget The Past

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  John Glenn

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Funny Birthday

  "Ohio's Sen. Glenn Won't Run Again In 1998" by Candy Crowley, www.cnn.com.

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• Its better to wear out than to rust out.

  Richard Cumberland

  Birthday, Rust, Labor

  In George Horne 'The Duty of Contending for the Faith' (1786) p. 21n.

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• You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

  Germaine Greer

  Life, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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