Happy Birthday Quotes
Draw on the wisdom of others as you wish someone special a very happy birthday. These birthday quotes are a mix of funny and wise. Use them as greeting card birthday wishes, birthday SMSs, or in a birthday speech.
“Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.”
– Larry Lorenzoni
“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
– Jack Benny
“Age is a matter of feeling, not of year.”
– George William Curtis
“Old age is like underwear… it creeps up on you”
– Anon
“Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake”
– Anon
“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed”
– Charles Schulz
“It’s never too late to be what you want to be. Unless you want to be younger. Then you’re screwed”
– Anon
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
– William Shakespeare
“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old”
– Mark Twain
“As men get older, the toys get more expensive”
– Marvin Davis
“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese”
– Helen Hayes
“The tragedy of getting old: So many candles… so little cake”
– Anon
“You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.”
– John Grier
“Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”
– Chili Davis
If things get better with age then you’re approaching magnificent”
– Anon
When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off”
– Anon
“Youth is a gift of nature but age is a work of art.”
– Stanislaw Lec
“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”
– Lucille Ball
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.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
– Bernard Baruch
“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Middle age is when your age begins to show around your middle.”
– Bob Hope
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.”
– Ogden Nash
“Middle age is when a man has got a handle on life and life has put handles on his waist”
– Anon
“Forty is the age of youth. Fifty is the youth of old age”
– Victor Hugo
“The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.”
– T. S. Eliot
“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Christian Religious Birthday Wishes
Beautifully worded religious birthday wishes to help you thank God for a friend or family member and wish them a very blessed birthday.
Today I ask God to bless you with every kind of joy on your birthday and always. Happy Birthday!
May God bless you today on your birthday and every day after. May you be comforted by His presence in your life, and always follow His guiding light. Wishing you the happiest of birthdays and a wonderful year to come.
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.
~ Traditional Irish Blessing
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. Isaiah 46:4
Happy Birthday! Remember that for every day of your life there is Someone taking care of you, and may God continue to hold you in His gentle hands and bring you peace.
On your birthday, I pray that you feel His presence working in your life and that you are filled with the wonder and glory of God’s unfailing love for you.
Wishing the happiest of birthdays for the best of friends! Praying for God’s richest blessings for you over the year ahead.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11
And here is a beautiful bible verse to inspire and encourage someone as they approach adulthood.
Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you. The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. Cherish her, and she will exalt you; embrace her, and she will honor you. She will give you a garland to grace your head and present you with a glorious crown. Proverbs 4:6-9
This Christian birthday prayer is a beautiful poem that you could share with family or a close friend on their birthday.
I said a prayer for you today
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart,
Although He spoke no word.
I didn’t ask for wealth or fame,
I knew you wouldn’t mind.
I asked Him to send treasures
Of a far more lasting kind.
I asked that He be near you
At the start of each new day
To grant you health and blessings
And friends to share your way.
I asked for happiness for you
In all things, great and small,
But it was for His loving care
I prayed for most of all.
~ Author Unknown