Quotable Quotes For Grownup Birthdays

Quotable Quotes for Grownup Birthdays

Thinking about toasting the birthday guy or gal? Here are some classic quotes that are perfect for toasts of any sort, from funny to serious and everything in between.

General

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

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

• Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.
  Ralph Parlette

• Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
  Lucy Larcom

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

• We are always the same age inside.
  Gertrude Stein

• Sing a song of Birthdays
  Full of fun and cheer
  And may you keep on having them
  For many a happy year.
  Anonymous

• I want to be an artist
  To paint pictures just for you,
  So when each birthday comes around,
  I can send you quite a few.
  Anonymous

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

• There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
  William Shakespeare

• A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
  Anonymous

Humorous

• You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
  Ogden Nash

• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
  Lucille Ball

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
  Jack Benny

• The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
  H. V. Prochnow

• From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.
  Sophie Tucker

• When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents.
  Blair Sabol

• Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
  Coco Chanel

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
  Ogden Nash

• 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.
  Malcolm Cowley

• Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
  Reverend Larry Lorenzoni

• For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
  John Glenn

• Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.
  William Randolph Hearst on suggestions for gifts

• You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
  Bob Hope

• Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
  Charles Schultz

• When I passed forty I dropped pretense, ‘cause men like women who got some sense.
  Maya Angelou

• Life begins at forty.
  W. B. Pitkin

• We are all born naked and screaming and if you're lucky that sort of thing won't stop there.
  Unknown

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

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