80th Birthday Quotes

#1

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen
- Mark Twain

#2
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
~ Francis Bacon ~

#3
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
~ Bernard M. Baruch ~

#4
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
~ May L. Becker ~

#5
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
~ Samuel Beckett ~
#6

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

#7
I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.
~ Rita Mae Brown ~
#8
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
~ Pearl S. Buck ~

#9
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~

#10

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
~ Billie Burke ~