Go over our beautiful collection of Birthday quotes that range from the funny to the philosophical. There are general quotations as well as quotations classified for persons of different age groups. Check out :
General Birthday Quotations -
May you live all the days of your life.
~ Jonathan Swift
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
~ John Glenn
Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.
~ Anonymous
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.
~ Stephen Wright
Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.
~ Richard Bach
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
~ George Harrison
We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
~ Michel de Montaigne
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~ Jean Paul Richter
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
~ Larry Lorenzoni
From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
~ William Butler Yeats
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
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
~ Robert Orben
Birthday Quotations for different age groups -
For birthday persons in their 30s -
Thirty-five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ~ Hervey Allen
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
~ Matt Dillon
I am thirty-three -- the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
~ Camille Desmoulins
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
~ Judith Viorst
For birthday persons in their 40s -
Life begins at 40 -- but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
~ William Feather
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
~ Benjamin Haydon
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
~ Anita Brookner
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
~ Virginia Woolf
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
~ Edward Young
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
~ Samuel Johnson
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
~ Victor Hugo
For birthday persons in their 50s -
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
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
~ Wendy Cope
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. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.
~ Alexander Herzen
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
~ Edward Hoagland
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
You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
~ Henry Ford
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
~ French Proverb
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
Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.
~ Joan Rivers
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
~ George Orwell
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of your life.
~ Muhammad Ali
For birthday persons in their 60s -
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
~ Sir William Osler
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
~ James Thurber
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
~ Arthur E. Morgan
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
~ Arnold Bennett
For birthday persons in their 70s -
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Doris Lessing
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
~ Mark Twain
On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful.
~ from "The Consolations of Age"
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
~ Oliver Wendel Holmes Jr
For birthday persons in their 80s -
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
~ Joyce Carey
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
For birthday persons in their 90s -
A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ~ ~ Dorothea Kent
For birthday persons in their 100s -
If I'd known I was going to live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.
~ Ubie Blake
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