(460 quotes found)
“The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
“There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“35 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.”
“Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.”
Lance Armstrong
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Robert Frost
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.”
Ogden Nash
“Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.”
Angela Carter
“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.”
Edward Young
“My Birthday! what a difference sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears.”
Thomas Moore