Birthday Quotes - Page 4

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.