Witty Birthday Sayings

People love putting a smile on the face of their loved ones, with a birthday quote. You can crack humorous, sarcastic, or encouraging jokes, depending on how close you are to that person. Here are a few quotes that you can use to make a birthday boy/girl smile.

• "Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Anonymous
• "Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened." - Cora Harvey Armstrong
• "Like many women my age, I am 28 years old." - Mary Schmich

• "First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to zip up your fly, and then you forget to unzip your fly." - Branch Rickey
• "From our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye." - William Butler Yeats

• "Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many." - Plato
• "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made." - Robert Browning
• "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." - Mark Twain

• "Let us respect gray hair, especially our own." - J. P. Sears
• "You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime." - John P. Grier
• "Age is different from a wife only in one respect. It nags you once in a year!" - Anonymous
• "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." - Lucille Ball

• "Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician." - Anonymous
• "Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." - Truman Capote
• "The first hundred years are the hardest." - Wilson Mizner
• "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." - Tom Wilson

• "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw
• "The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left." - Jerry M. Wright
• "Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed." - Charles Schulz

• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein
• "At 19, everything is possible, and tomorrow looks friendly." - Jim Bishop
• "Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires." - Goethe
• "May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine." - Frank Sinatra

• "I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too." - Liv Tyler
• "At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment." - Benjamin Franklin
• "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much." - Anonymous

• "Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I've been doing since 15." - Anonymous
• "It takes a long time to grow young." - Pablo Picasso
• "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself." - Ethel Barrymore
• "Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty." - Coco Chanel

• "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down." - T.S. Eliot
• "Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty." - Edward Hoagland
• "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

• "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Oprah Winfrey
• "I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius." - George Carlin
• "To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am." - Bernard Baruch

• "Looking fifty is great... if you're sixty.." - Joan Rivers
• "One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late." - Pablo Picasso