Birthday Quotes - Page 28

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.