“At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.”
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Milestone Birthday Quotes
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
Source: The courage to be happy
“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”
“Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.”
“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.”
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”
“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
“Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
“At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.”
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918
“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”
“Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.”
Source: Poems
“Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope with His Last Corrections, Additions and Improvements,3: From the Text of Dr. Warburton with Life of the Author
“At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.”
“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”
Source: The Complete Poetry
“The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.”
“The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
“If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.”
“Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”
“You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.”
“The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.”
Source: 1000 Stories and Illustrations for All Occasions
“One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.”
“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”