Birthday Greetings - Page 32

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and "you are looking wonderful."

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change.

My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light!

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

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.

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

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is not for sissies.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men.

Sixteen candles make a lovely light
But not as bright as your eyes tonight

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.

There are days of oldness, and then one gets young again.

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder, but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow,
Which nobody can deny.

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,...

We are so fond of one another, because our ailments are the same.

I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.

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

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

An old man loved is winter with flowers.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

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.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

You take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn by ourselves, from a book.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.