50th Birthday Quotes and Sayings

Looking fifty is great–if you’re sixty.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.

Don’t worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

Middle age: Later than you think, and sooner than you expected.

I have everything now I had twenty years ago — except now it’s all lower.

I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it’s up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

I can’t believe you’re 50; 49 maybe, but never 50!

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

After fifty everything that doesn’t hurt doesn’t work!

On your birthday: count your candles, count your years, count your blessings.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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

Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

You’re a classic, you only get better with age!

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it’s because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Age is a number and mine is unlisted.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.

If I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

No wonder I’m unhappy – My twin forgot my birthday.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.