Birthday Quotes - Page 19

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

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.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

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?

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.'

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.