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

- Lewis Carroll

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

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.
- Betty Davis

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

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

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

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart. (unless you eat raw food!)
- Caryn Leschen

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

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

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

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

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