Quotes About Birthdays

Getting older and getting better

Last June, I quote, therefore I am. was born and it’s been a fun year researching quotes and sharing them with you. In honor of this last year, and the time to come, these quotes are about birthdays.

1. “As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” -Norman Wisdom

2. “It takes a long time to become young.” -Pablo Picasso

3. “A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.” -Amit Kalantri

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

5. “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” -Emily Dickinson

6. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” -Fred Astaire

7. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” -Dr. Seuss

8. “Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.” -Cora Harvey Armstrong

9. “The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.” -English Proverb

10. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi

11. “Your birthday is the beginning of your own personal new year. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.” -Wilfred Peterson

12. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” -Voltaire

13. “A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.” -Erma Bombeck

14. “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” -John Glenn

15. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” -Henry Ford

16. “A birthday is like a new year and my wish for you is a great year full of happiness and sunshine!” -Catherine Pulsifer

17. “There are two great days in a person’s life — the day we are born and the day we discover why.” -William Barclay

18. “Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.” -Lauren Hutton

19. “Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.” -Lynsay Sands

20. “You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” -Les Brown

21. “Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.” -Edward Morykwas

22. “Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.” -Booth Tarkington

23. “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.” -Anna Magnani

24. “I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody.” -George Burns

25. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot

26. “Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be. Make the most of it!” -Nicky Gumbel

27. “Don’t just count your years, make your years count.” -George Meredith

28. “Celebrate your journey of life.” -Lailah Gifty Akita

29. “None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” -Henry David Thoreau

30. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” -Mark Twain

31. “Birthdays are just personalized New Year’s.” -Josh Henderson

32. “Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” -Ausonius 33. “Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.” -Aretha Franklin

34. “The cake had a trick candle that wouldn’t go out, so I didn’t get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.” -Janet Fitch

35. “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” -Samuel Ullman

36. “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” -Bob Hope

37. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” -Madeleine L’Engle

38. “Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.” -Audrey Hepburn

39. “Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better.” -Sanhita Baruah

40. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.” -E. Fromm

41. “Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” -Tom Wilson

42. “You don’t get older, you get better.” -Shirley Bassey

43. “The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

44. “Someone asked me when is my birthday? The poet inside me replied, ‘My birthday is on the last day of the year, It’s 31st December my dear!’” -Anamika Mishra

45. “Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

46. “Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard, there is nothing you can do about it.” -Golda Meir

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

48. “At my age, flowers scare me.” -George Burns

49. “I don’t mind getting older; it’s a privilege denied to so many!” -Chris Geiger

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

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