"...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend."
Birthday quotes
Birthday
940 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Birthday
Browse quotes that often appear alongside birthday — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Birthday quotes (page 9 of 47)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."
"You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look."
"Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again."
"The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days."
"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."
"It was only in my forties that I started feeling young."
"Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did."
"If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes."
"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
"I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12."
"Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age."
"Age steals away all things, even the mind."
"Other arms reach out to me, Other eyes smile tenderly, Still in peaceful dreams I see, The road leads back to you."
"I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred."
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."
"I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot."
"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."