Happy Birthday Quotes

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

"It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else."
- Albert Schweitezer

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. - Samuel Johnson

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
- Mark Twain

Think of birthdays this way: you're not getting older, you're getting wiser. - Anonymous

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

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
- T. S. Eliot

"Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life."
- Billy Mills

"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment."
- Ben Franklin

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

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
- Jonathan Swift

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

"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."
- Sophie Tucker

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

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