Showing posts with label Age and Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Age and Birthday. Show all posts

Saturday, February 9, 2008

15 Short Quotes about Age

1. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. ~ Benjamin Franklin

2. There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. ~ Carol Matthau

3. Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. ~ Cyril Connolly

4. The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. ~ Doug Larson

5. I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect. ~ George Burns

6. About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~ Gloria Pitzer

7. Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ~ Groucho Marx

8. Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. ~ Maurice Chevalier

9. You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ~ Michael Pritchard

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

11. A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

12. I am not young enough to know everything. ~ Oscar Wilde

13. In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. ~ Roger Allen

14. The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

15. Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. ~ Lillian Carter

Monday, February 4, 2008

8 Short Quotes about Birthday

1. A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~ Author Unknown

2. 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

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

4. Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ~ Robert Lynd

5. The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. ~ H. V. Prochnow

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

7. The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~ Seneca

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

10 Short Quotes about Age

1. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~ Tom Wilson

2. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent — that is to triumph over old age. ~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

3. As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. ~ Robert Benchley

4. By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. ~ George Burns


5. Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve. ~ Coco Chanel

6. One of the good things about getting older is you find you're more interesting than most of the people you meet. ~ Lee Marvin

7. The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

8. I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. ~ Oscar Wilde,

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

10. Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~ Dorothy Fulheim