Happy Birthday Quotes

"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

"Everything I know I learned after I was thirty."
- Georges Clemenceau

"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

"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

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years."
- Mark Twain

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

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

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

"I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing."
- Rabindranath Tagore

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

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
- Bishop Richard Cumberland

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

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

"After 30, a body has a mind of its own."
- Bette Midler

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eye'd, such seems your beauty still."
- William Shakespeare