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Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog article, Mary shares some of the interesting and/or funny quotes about birthdays and aging that she found in old newspapers.

While researching birthdays and aging in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives, I came across some delightful quotes from famous people. Some are modern, some are historical and others are just plain hysterical!

Have fun using these quotes in blogs or while making “Happy Birthday” cards. If you have some of your own birthday quotes to share, please post them in the comments section of this blog.

Famous People Birthday & Gift Quotes

• “I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.” –Adele
• “I binge when I’m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I’m at a birthday party.” –Kirstie Alley
• “I like to go to anybody else’s birthday, and if I’m invited I’m a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don’t care.” –Mikhail Baryshnikov
• “A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.” –Erma Bombeck

• “There are 364 days when you might get unbirthday presents…and only one for birthday presents, you know.”–Lewis Carroll (AKA Charlie Lutwidge Dodgson)
• “I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can’t do certain things anymore – like doing the plank for 10 minutes.” –Ellen DeGeneres who was born 26 January 1958
• “A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.” –Robert Frost

• “In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.” –Annette Funicello
• “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” –John Glenn
• “All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” –George Harrison

• “Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.” –William Randolph Hearst on suggestions for gifts
• “The way I see it, you should live every day like it’s your birthday.” –Paris Hilton
• “You know you’re getting older when the candles cost more than the cake.” –Bob Hope
• “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” –Jesse Jackson
• “My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.” –Loretta Lynn
• “Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.” –Phylicia Rashad
• “I’m not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!” –Norman Rockwell
• “I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.” –George Bernard Shaw

• “Love the giver more than the gift.” –Brigham Young
• “I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
• “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.’” –Jerry Seinfeld
• “The last birthday that’s any good is 23.” –Andy Rooney

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Famous People Quotes on Aging

• “It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.” –Brigitte Bardot
• “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” –John Barrymore
• “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be!” –Robert Browning
• “Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.” –Truman Capote
• “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” –Fred Astaire

• “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” –Lewis Carroll (AKA Charlie Lutwidge Dodgson) from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• “Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” –Maurice Chevalier
• “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.” –Emily Dickinson
• “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot
• “I’ll keep singing ’till I die.” –Bing Crosby

• “All my possessions for one moment of time.” –Queen Elizabeth
• “The years teach much which the days never knew.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “An old young man will be a young old man.” –Benjamin Franklin (AKA Poor Richard)
• “At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.” –Benjamin Franklin (AKA Poor Richard)
• “Youth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting; So ears of corn when young and bright, stand bold upright, But hang their heads when weighty, full and ripe.” –Benjamin Franklin (AKA Poor Richard)

• “Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Old age is fifteen years older than I am.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.” –Bob Hope
• “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” –Victor Hugo
• “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln
• “Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.” –Jack Nicklaus
• “Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.” –Satchel Paige
• “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” –Satchel Paige
• “It takes a long time to become young.” –Pablo Picasso
• “I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.” –Mary Pickford
• “Youth is just wasted on young people.” –George Bernard Shaw
• “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye’d, Such seems your beauty still.” –William Shakespeare
• “In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, in old age prudent.” –Socrates

• “May you live all the days of your life.” –Jonathan Swift
• “Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.” –Mark Twain.
• “The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.” –Mark Twain
• “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” –Mae West
• “Those whom the gods love grow young.” –Oscar Wilde
• “My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.” –Flip Wilson
• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” –Oprah Winfrey
• “From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.” –William Butler Yeats

Memorable Songs & Books

May God bless and keep you always
May your wishes all come true
May you always do for others
And let others do for you
May you build a ladder to the stars
And climb on every rung
May you stay forever young
Forever young, forever young
May you stay forever young.

–Bob Dylan from the song “May You Stay Forever Young”

They say it’s your birthday
It’s my birthday too, yeah
They say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you

–John Lennon & Paul McCartney from the song “Birthday”

Time is on my side, yes it is
Time is on my side, yes it is

–Jerry Ragovoy (AKA Jimmy Norman) from the Rolling Stones’ song “Time Is on My Side”

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

–Dr. Seuss (AKA Theodor Seuss Geisel) from the book “Happy Birthday to You!”

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General Birthday

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
- Jean Paul Richter

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus

Birthdays? yes, in a general way;
For the most if not for the best of men:
You were born (I suppose) on a certain day:
So was I: or perhaps in the night: what then?
- James Kenneth Stephen

From our birthday, until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
- William Butler Yeats

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know.
- Lewis Carroll

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
- Emily Dickinson

We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
- Plato

It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
- English Proverb

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
- Christina Georgina Rossetti

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

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
- Virginia Woolf

The greatest comfort of my old age, and that which gives me the highest satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance of the many benefits and friendly offices I have done to others.
- Marcus Cato

May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. - Robert Orben

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.
- Robert Browning

Funny Quotes

Inside every older person is a younger person -
wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong

Oh to be seventy again.
- Georges Clemenceau, upon seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth birthday

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

Getting old ain't for sissies.
- Bette Davis

Of late I appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age.
- Richard Armour

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that old age brings wisdom.
- Henry Louis Mencken

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
- John P. Grier

If I'd known I was going to live this long (100 years),
I'd have taken better care of myself.
- Ubie Blake

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
- C.E.M. Joad

Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own.
- J. P. Sears

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard

You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old.
- George Burns

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
- Euripides

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized
for a crime you have not committed.
- Anthony Powell

Call this an unfair generalization if you must,
but old people are no good at everything.
- Moe, from the Simpsons

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Milestone Birthdays

20th

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; and at 40 the judgment.
- Ben Franklin

Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
- Robert Southey

35th & 30th

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

Time and tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
- Robert Frost

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen

After 30, a body has a mind of its own.
- Bette Midler

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.
- Lew Wallace

Thirty five is a very attractive age;
London society is full of women who have of their own
free choice remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thrity-five.
- Joel Hildebrand

40th

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire

Life begins at forty.
- W. B. Pitkin

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.
Latin: Hoc vinum Falernum annorum quadragenta est. Bene aetatem fert.
- Cicero

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
- George Bernard Shaw

Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
- Edward Young

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
- French Proverb

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.
- Henry Miller

50th

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

Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty. - Joan Rivers

At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
- George Orwell

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

You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
- Henry Ford

60th

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
- Arnold Bennett

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.
- Lord Hood

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.
- George Benjamin Luks

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 worl so long in vain?
- John Dryden

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
- Pablo Picasso

70th

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.
- Mark Twain, at his seventieth birthday dinner, in 1905, as quoted in Saving Your Brain, by Jeff Victoroff

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of the resurrection. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, as quoted in Human Engineering

On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out green, wild, and beautiful.
- The Consolations of Age, translated from the German of Zschokke's autobiography

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'
- Eleanor Roosevelt

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

80th

Oh, to be seventy again.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., upon seeing an attractive woman on his 90th birthday

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
- Mark Twain

90th

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

100th

When I die, I want it to be on my 100th birthday, in my beach house on Maui and I want my husband to be so upset that he has to drop out of college.
- Roz Doyle, from the television show Frasier

Here are some great birthday wishes and quotes for a 15th birthday or Quinceanera that you can use for greeting cards and social media including Facebook, WhatsApp, Pinterest, SMS and text messages.  Hope you enjoy these!

Happy 15th Birthday (Quinceanera) Quotes and Messages

You are such a joy to us and to everyone who knows you. I hope your special day will bring you lots of joy, happiness and fun. On your Quinceanera, I wish that your path in life is always filled with love, happiness, and success.

At 15, you are no longer a little kid. You can almost drive now! You surely have blossomed into a beautiful and intelligent young woman. Happy 15th! Join the #MeToo movement!

Look at you – you look just like a princess today. You look so happy and you are just beaming! Happy birthday, you vibrant 15-year-old! May all your craziest wishes come true. Happy birthday.

We are so proud of you! You’ve done so much and success comes naturally to you! Here’s to only more success as you continue to grow into a beautiful young lady. Happy birthday!

On your birthday, I wish that your path in life is always filled with love, happiness, and success. I hope the sun shines bright for you today and everything goes your way! I am sending lots of kisses and hugs and plenty of birthday wishes to you on your 15th birthday today.

Happy 15th my dear. You are at the junction between an adult and a teenager; you can get away with being either one! Enjoy it! I hope this day brings you every desire of your heart.

It feels like I looked at you for a second and you were this tiny beautiful girl. And now you are walking around in heels! I am so happy for you today and wish you the very best of birthdays!

On your 15 birthday, I wish that you will have the strength to face your challenges and the wisdom to choose your battles. I hope this day brings you every desire of your heart. Have the most wonderful day today surrounded by all the people who love you.

¡Feliz aniversario a una persona maravillosa!. Que tengas salud y felicidad.

Happy 15 birthday. You get even more awesome even year! You are truly the best gift that I have ever received in my life.

Birthdays are a beautiful thing, especially when they result in incredible people like you. May this special day bring you endless joy and tons of precious memories! Have a great one!

¡Feliz día! Esperamos que pases un día muy feliz en compañía de amigos y familiares.

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Famous and perfect 51 happy birthday quotes,birthday wishes,sayings

1.
“You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ” – Author Unknown,birthday quotes

2.
“Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.” – Unknown

3.
“You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.”  – Brad Garrett

4.
“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.'”  -Jerry Seinfeld

5.
“You don't get older, you get better.”  – Shirley Bassey,birthday quotes

6.
“With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.”  – Rodney Dangerfield

7.
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ”  – Tom Wilson,birthday quotes

8.
“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”  – Washington Irving

9.
“When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.”  –  Blair Sabol

10.
“When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie? ” -Lisa Loeb,birthday quotes

11.
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.”  – Mark Twain

12.
“When I was little, I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. ” –  Gloria Stuart,birthday quotes

13.
“When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.”  -Yoko On

14.
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”  –  Voltaire

15.
“We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”  – Emily Dickinson

16.
“We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.”   – Author Unknown,birthday quotes

17.
“We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.
“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”  – Dr. Seuss,birthday quotes

19.
“To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.”  -Lionel Blue

20.
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. ” – Bernard M. Baruch

21.
“To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.”  – Shakespeare

22.
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”  – Thomas B. Aldrich,birthday quotes

23.
“To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.”  – Franka Potente

24.
“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world,except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”  – Oscar Wilde

25.
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”  – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

26.
“Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ”  – Author Unknown,birthday quotes

27.
“Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.”  – Robert Frost

28.
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”  – Buddha

29.
“This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday… I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me – Homeland Security.”  -Art Buchwald

30.
“Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. ” -C. S. Lewis,birthday quotes

31.
“Things to ponder every Birthday:If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.”  –  Euripides

32.
“They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ” – Anonymous

33.
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”  -John Glenn,birthday quotes

34.
“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”  -Lewis Carroll

35.
“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! ” – Pablo Picasso

36.
“The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.”  – Anne Lamott

37.
“The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. ” – Johnny Carson

38.
“The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.”  -Paris Hilton,birthday quotes

39.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why”  -Mark Twain

40.
“The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.”  – English Proverb

41.
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything!”  – Jack Benny

42.
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. ” -Oprah Winfrey,birthday quotes

43.
“The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ” – Muhammad Ali

44.
“The golden age is before us, not behind us.”  – William Shakespeare

45.
“The first forty years of life give us the text:the next thirty supply the commentary.”  – Arthur Schopenhauer

46.
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”  – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

47.
“The birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me.”  – Christina Georgina Rossetti,birthday quotes

48.
“The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.”  -E. Joseph Cossman

49.
“The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn’t have when you were young you no longer want.”  –  L.S. McCandless

50.
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.”  – Robert Orben

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“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.”  – Audrey Hepburn ,birthday quotes