50th Birthday Quotes

If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle

What most persons consider as virtue,
after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

To me, old age is always 20 years older than I am.
Anonymous

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt

At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it.
Doris Day

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anonymous

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
Anonymous

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Anonymous

Every time you suck in your gut, your ankles swell.
Anonymous

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
Anonymous

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
George William Curtis

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
Dr Seuss

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Bonstettin

Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
Anonymous

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee

Middle age: Later than you think, and sooner than you expected.
Anonymous

You sit in a rocking chair and can’t get it going.You confuse having a clear conscience with having a bad memory
Anonymous

No wonder I’m unhappy – My twin forgot my birthday.
Anonymous

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

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, “ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.” One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
Dorothy L. Sayers