Birthday Quotes

ByDr. Dan

I had another birthday last week.  They seem to be coming more frequently these days. To celebrate, I collected my twenty favorite quotes on birthdays and aging:

  • You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. Bob Hope
  • It’s a mere moment in a man’s life between an All-Star Game and an Old-Timers Game. Vin Scully
  • You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Woody Allen
  • The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. Lucille Ball
  • Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Charles Schulz
  • Let us not fear growing old or shrink from the realities of aging; it is a privilege denied to many far better than ourselves. Unknown
  • How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Satchel Paige
  • You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’Jerry Seinfeld
  • And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
  • How did it get so late so soon? Its night before afternoon. December is here before June.  My goodness how the time has flewn.  How did it get so late so soon?   Seuss
  • Has this world been so kind to you that you leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C.S. Lewis
  • We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
  • When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” Cherokee proverb
  • When we’re young we want to get away; when we’re old we want to go back. And we spend our lives replacing all the things we leave behind.” Mel Tillis, “Southern Rain”
  • No matter who we are, retirement presents us with two choices. Either we can use it to indulge ourselves, or we can use it to make an impact on the lives of others. Billy Graham
  • Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning
  • I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright
  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Les Brown
  • It ain’t over till its over. Yogi Berra
  • Now also when I amold and gray-headed, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to everyone who is to come. Psalm 71:1