Happy Birthday Quotes

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
- Jonathan Swift

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Unknown

"If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building."
- Katherine Hepburn

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."
- Oscar Wilde

"A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost; and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
- E. Joseph Cossman

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
- Bishop Richard Cumberland

"Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life."
- Billy Mills

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it."
- Rudyard Kipling

"I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face." - Stephen Hopkins

I have nothing to give as a gift but I promise to always remember your birthday.
- Victor Ukegbu Ogbonnaya

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. - Samuel Johnson

"Everything I know I learned after I was thirty."
- Georges Clemenceau

Think of birthdays this way: you're not getting older, you're getting wiser. - Anonymous

"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

"The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life."
- Muhammad Ali

"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."
- Albert Schweitezer