1.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer
You may only have one chance at youth, but immaturity can last a lifetime.
2.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
The key is in what we choose to focus on. We can either make ourselves content or miserable; the effort required is identical.
3.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
The formula for eternal youth is living truthfully, savoring meals, and fibbing about one's years.
4.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
What age would you be if you were ignorant of your chronological years?
5.
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.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The same divine power that was bestowed upon you at birth is revitalised annually on your birthday.
6.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns
Initially you misremember names, later on you forget appearances. Subsequently you overlook to zip your zipper up and ultimately, you neglect to unzip it.
7.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
A diplomat is a person who always commemorates a female's special day but never recalls her maturity.
9.
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield
10.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison
11.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
12.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Aristotle Onassis
13.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay
14.
I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.
George Burns
15.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar Wilde
16.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
17.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
John Oates
18.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
19.
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jane Fonda
20.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Theodore Roosevelt
21.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Voltaire
22.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra
23.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
25.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
Abhishek Bachchan
26.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
Sammy Hagar
27.
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne
28.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
29.
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.
George Eliot
30.
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
Buddy Valastro
31.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
33.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny
34.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
35.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
38.
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
39.
Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.
Marcus Aurelius
40.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Steven Wright
42.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
H. H. Asquith
43.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Sam Levenson
45.
Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast
46.
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
Lucy Lawless
47.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
48.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
49.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
50.
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel