60th Birthday Quotes

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

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

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

Those whom the gods love grow young.

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

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

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

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

I still find each day too short.

The most important things in life are intangible.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

May you live all the days of your life.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy.

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.