Birthday Quotes - Page 12

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Youth has no age.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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.

I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburmum on his birthday,- The tree is living yet.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

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.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.