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50th Birthday Quotes
Here's a large list of 50th birthday quotes. Whether someone famous said it or it is from someone unknown,
we've probably got it listed in our huge list of 50th birthday quotes below. Alright, here we go . . .
50th Birthday Quotes From The Famous
50th Birthday Quotes
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point? - Jim Carrey
After a man is 50, you can fool him by saying he is smart, but you can't fool him by saying he's pretty - E.W. House
On my 50th birthday my wife gave me a superb birthday present. She let me win an argument - author unknown
Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young
and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face - Richard Griffiths
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life - Muhammad Ali
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you - Agatha Christie
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty - Edward Hoagland
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry - author unknown
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent - Wendy Cope
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves - Marie Dressler
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty - Coco Chanel
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty - Joan Rivers
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
Enough of the 50th birthday quotes that mention the age 50 - now for a few more funny quotes that have to do to getting older!
Funny Birthday Quotes
Not 50th Birthday Quotes - but still good:
Call this an unfair generalization if you must,
but old people are no good at everything - Moe, from the Simpsons
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest - Larry Lorenzoni
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier - Dan Bennett
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed - Charles Schulz
It is often said that With Age Comes Wisdom and you're One Of The Wisest People I Know!
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly - Branch Rickey
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle - Bob Hope
Of late I appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age - Richard Armour
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate - Lady Nancy Astor
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years - Anita Brookner
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for
five dollars when you had hair - Sam Ewing
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese - Billie Burke
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely - Ogden Nash
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age - Robert Frost
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative - Maurice Chevalier
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself - Mickey Mantle
Getting old ain't for sissies - Bette Davis
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age - Lucille Ball
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional - Chili Davis
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake - auther unknown
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet - Robert Orben
There is still no cure for the common birthday - John Glenn
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime - John P. Grier
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants - Edward Steichen
Oh to be seventy again - Georges Clemenceau (upon seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday)
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you have not committed - Anthony Powell
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake - Bob Hope
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do - Phyllis Diller
Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened - Cora Harvey Armstrong
These funny quotes were not quite 50th birthday quotes, but still good to poke fun of our friends and family with!
Thoughtful Birthday Quotes
A nice addition to 50th Birthday Quotes
Not funny, and not exactly 50th birthday quotes - but hey, I thought these belonged here:
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much - George Harrison
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act - Truman Capote
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Gandhi
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it - Doris Day
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened - Jennifer Yane
Age is a high price to pay for maturity - Tom Stoppard
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come - Lucy Larcom
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living - Henri Frederic Amiel
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself - Tom Wilson
It takes a long time to grow young - Pablo Picasso
One to-day is worth two to-morrows - Benjamin Franklin
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine - Frank Sinatra
We are always the same age inside - Gertrude Stein
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune - Pope Paul VI
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old - George Burns
My birthday!--What a different sound
that word had in my youthful ears;
and how each time the day comes round,
less and less white its mark appears - Thomas Moore
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the
things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it - Mark Twain
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier - Dan Bennett
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever - Don Marquis
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know - Lewis Carroll
I’m not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You’re as old as you feel - Elizabeth Arden
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise - Margaret Atwood
Birthdays? Yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men: You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then - James Kenneth Stephen
We turn not older with years, but newer every day - Emily Dickinson
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own - J. P. Sears
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many - Plato
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time - Jean Paul Richter
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words - Plautus
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes - Euripides
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate - Oprah Winfrey
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you - Carl Sandburg
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life - Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
If youth but knew; if age but could - Henri Estienne
No wise man ever wished to be younger - Jonathan Swift
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed - Charles Schulz
May you live all the days of your life - Jonathan Swift
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age - Thomas B. Aldrich
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time - Jean Paul Richter
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them - Virginia Woolf
The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others - Marcus Cato
A birthday:—and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife—
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life - Jean Ingelow
The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me - Christina Georgina Rossetti
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made - Robert Browning
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you
From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye - William Butler Yeats
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age - Pope John XXIII
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again - Dorothy L. Sayers
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