Aspirations Quotes

"When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off."

- Joan Rivers

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

- Truman Capote

"Inside every older person is a younger person—wondering what the hell happened."

- Jennifer Yane

""One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.""

- Liz Smith

""There is still no cure for the common birthday.""

- John Glenn

""You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.""

- Ogden Nash

""You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.'""

- Jerry Seinfeld

""Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.""

- Harold Coffin

""You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.""

- Bob Hope

""Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.""

- Herbert Henry Asquist

"The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana."

- Betty White

"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two."

- Sir Norman Wisdom

"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

"Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl."

- Chris Hardwick

"Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?"

- Bobby Kelton

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."

- Herbert Asquith

"They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it very much."

- Malcolm Cowley

"I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I’m one year older, everyone else is too."

- Gloria Swanson

"Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs."

- John Glenn

"To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn’t wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."

- Lionel Blue

"The first hundred years are the hardest."

- Wilson Mizner

"Don’t regret another birthday, the good news is that you are alive and can celebrate it."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’"

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age."

- C.E.M. Joad

"How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?"

- Satchel Paige

"Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once."

- Dave Barry

"You're not forty, you're eighteen with twenty-two years experience."

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."

"Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake."

"Aging is the worst side effect of birthdays."

- Unknown