Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing “Happy Birthday”.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents … and only one for birthday presents, you know.
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 that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing,…
The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.
I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.
The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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.
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
The Best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
