Birthday Wisdom

More birthday wisdom...

You're only as old as you remember.

But seriously, looking 50 is great, if you're 60 - Joan Rivers.

And remember, after 30 a body has a mind of its own - Bette Midler

Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
Joan Rivers

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
Joan Rivers

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.
Richard Griffiths
The 61-year-old actor joins the grumpy old men's club

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter

Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Author Unknown

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

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

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Larry Lorenzoni

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
Branch Rickey

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

A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for.
Author Unknown

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
Plato

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

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis

Here's a birthday spanking,
Sent you on a card,
One, Two, Three,
Put them right on hard,
Four, Five, Six
One to live on, one to grow on,
One to make you fat…
Author Unknown

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett

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

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
Jennifer Yane

It takes a long time to grow young.
Pablo Picasso

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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Benjamin Franklin

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Pope Paul VI

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball

There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Author Unknown

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Author Unknown

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas B. Aldrich

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
Author Unknown

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom

When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off.
Author Unknown

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
Author Unknown

We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Make hay while the sun shines.
Proverb