It is always fun to celebrate birthdays, as well as to think about the many things that have been said about or that relate to them.
Aside from getting wiser, birthday wishes bone can delight in good food and good company.
Here are some awesome birthday quotes to liven up your big day, and perhaps even share with family and friends.
Remember to also check out our collection of funny birthday quotes as well as these birthday messages for a friend.
Famous Birthday Quotes Celebrating Life
1. “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis
Getting older (and hopefully wiser), we face old age, our senior years. Perhaps Emily Dickinson has the right idea:
2. “We turn not older with years, but newer every day” – Emily Dickinson
3. “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” – Sam Hagar
4. “Count your age by friends, not years, your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
5. “May your years be counted not by your age but by how you spend your days.” – Catherine Pulsifer
6. “Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.” – Jean Paul Richter
7. “You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” – Les Brown
8. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
While I was still in school, I had to read writings by ancient philosophers. I never thought they were relevant to me. As another birthday approaches, I’ve looked at some of those words of wisdom, re-evaluating their relevance.
Perhaps they are things that I’ve learned to live by, to accept – and yes – use as birthday quotes:
9. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire
10. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” – William Shakespeare
11. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
Certainly some good things to remember as we celebrate birthdays! Samuel Ullman said:
12. “Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” – Samuel Ullman
At birthday gatherings you also might also want to quote:
13. “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words,” – Plautus
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of wine quotes to celebrate over your favorite glass.
14. “Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is,” – E. Fromm
15. “Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of age quotes for the young and the young at heart.
16. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony,” – Mahatma Gandhi
17. “I’m like a fine wine. They don’t bring me out very much
18. “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art,” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Of course in discussing getting older, other pearls of wisdom are shared:
19. “The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune,” – English Proverb
20. “None are as old as those who have outlived enthusiasm,” – Henry David Thoreau
Also, read these young at heart quotes for the young and young at heart.
