12 Birthday Quotes and Proverbs

Complete Your Greeting Card Message With A Birthday Quote

Here are some birthday quotes and proverbs that you may like to include inside your card when you are looking for ideas on what to write in a birthday card.

Birthday Quotes:

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
– Jack Benny

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
– Benjamin Franklin

Grow old along with me,  the best is yet to be.
– Robert Browning

I love everything that’s old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
– Oliver Goldsmith

It takes a long time to grow young.
– Pablo Picasso

Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
– Anna Magnani

Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.
– Luther Dixon

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.
– Jean Renoir

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye’d,Such seems your beauty still.
– William Shakespeare

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
– Brigitte Bardot

Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
– Lucy Larcom

Birthday Proverb:

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
– French proverb

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