Happy Birthday Quotes

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
- George Santayana

"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."
- Euripides

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. - William Shakespeare

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
- French proverb

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

"If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building."
- Katherine Hepburn

"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

"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

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
- Oscar Wilde

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

Everyone is the age of their heart. - Guatemalan Proverb

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it."
- Rudyard Kipling

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

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

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Unknown

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. - Anonymous

You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. - Richard Bach