Choosing what to pop in the card of a loved one is always a moment where we want to say something funny or profound and nine times out of ten end-up writing, 'Happy Birthday!'
While this is a nice sentiment, it doesn't scream deep consideration and thought. That's where we come in. Below we've collated a whole load of birthday quotes for appropriation. Use them as they are or bend them to your will to give any birthday wishes you send a bit more punch!
Happy Birthday Quotes
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.Plautus
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.Bernard M. Baruch
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.Jean Paul Richter
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.William Shakespeare
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.Charles Schulz
Inspirational Birthday Quotes
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln
Count your blessings, not your wrinkles.Anon
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.Anon
We're not getting old, we're getting awesome.Anon
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.Anon
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?Satchel Paige
Funny Birthday Quotes
I'll always think of you as someone older than me.Anon
It's never too early to start a mid-life crisis.Anon
Congratulations on being a year closer to finding out if atheism was the right choice.Anon
Let's celebrate the first time you cried naked in someone else's bed.Anon
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.Maurice Chevalier
The secret to eternal youth is arrested development.Alice Roosevelt Longworth
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.Bob Hope
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
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.Mary Schmich
Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.Anon
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.Lucille Ball
There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.Tom Stoppard
Birthday Quotes For A Friend
Just imagine the things you'd want to hear on your birthday and assume I said them.Anon
I can't believe it's already been a year since the last time I didn't buy you anything for your birthday.Anon
Old enough to know better. Young enough to still do it.Anon
People say that the good die young, so I guess that's make you a bad ass!Anon
If you want to look young and thin, hang out with old fat people.Jim Eason
If things get better with age, then you're approaching magnificent.Nicole Beale
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.Helen Hayes
Forget about the past, you can't change it, forget about the future, you can't predict it, forget about the present, I didn't get you one!Anon
18th Birthday Quotes
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
Do not follow the roads that others make. Cut your own path through life and you will discover so many new things.Anon
21st Birthday Quotes
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.Mark Twain
When you turn 21, you can legally do all the things you've been doing since you were 15.Anon
On our 21st birthday, we don't care what the world thinks of us; only later we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all.Anon
30th Birthday Quotes
30 was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. -C. S. Lewis
Everything I know I learned after I was 30.Georges Clemenceau
40th Birthday Quotes
You're not 40, you're 18 with 22 years of experience.Anon
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.Helen Rowland
The first 40 years of life give us the text: the next 30 supply the commentary.Arthur Schopenhauer
50th Birthday Quotes
Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.Joan Rivers
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.Muhammad Ali
Nature gives you the face you have at 20, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at 50.Coco Chanel
60th Birthday Quotes
A man of 60 has spent 20 years in bed and over three years in eating.Arnold Bennett
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.Yoko Ono
70th Birthday Quotes
You're only (5 x 15) - 5.Anon
We can't reach old age by another man's road.Mark Twain
80th Birthday Quotes
Congratulations on turning 20 for the fourth time.Anon
The more you age the more valuable you become. I think your value is priceless.Anon
The advantage of being 80 years old is that one has many people to love.Jean Renoir
Birthday Quotes For Him
Don't think of it as getting older, think of it as becoming a classic.Anon
No matter where I go and whom I meet, I'm sure I'll never come across a person who has a smile cuter than yours.Anon
Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs.Anon
Birthday Quotes For Her
A well-adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for.Anon
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.E. Joseph Cossman
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
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.Robert Frost
Boom! 60 birthday quotes that'll have you sending memorable birthday messages at every available opportunity and making your recipients feel like the 'many happy returns' heroes they are!