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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Sep 19, 2025
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Its better to wear out than to rust out.
It’s better to wear out than rust out.
The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Today you are you! That is truer than true!
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.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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.'
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
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.
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
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.
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
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.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.