Birthday Verses, Sayings and Greetings

Here is a compilation of some inspiring Birthday verses, greetings, sayings and poems that you might like to include on the inside of your cards!

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~Timothy Leary

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. ~Bonnie Prudden

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. ~George Burns

Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving. ~Author Unknown

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups. ~Margaret Atwood

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work. ~Author Unknown

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~Mark Twain

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not. ~Author Unknown

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane

Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. ~Author Unknown

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. ~Emily Dickinson

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown

Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. ~Author Unknown

You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired. ~Author Unknown

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 Amiel

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ~Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane

I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. ~Mark Twain

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. ~John Barrymore

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? ~Satchel Paige

Everyone is the age of their heart. ~Guatemalan Proverb

The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible. ~Judith Regan

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ~Mark Twain

It's important to have a twinkle in your wrinkle. ~Author Unknown

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips. ~Attributed to John Wagner

The trick is growing up without growing old. ~Casey Stengel

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. ~Robert Frost

The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost

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