Happy 50th Sayings

#1. Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Franklin P. Adams

#2. At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

H. H. Asquith

#3. Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

T. S. Eliot

#4. In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Bill Cosby

#5. Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday!

Dave Barry

#6. My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

Kate Christensen

#7. I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

Michael Connelly

#8. It's an incredible honor to be recognized by St. Jude, especially on a special year like its 50th anniversary. I feel passionate about my music, but even more passionate about children and giving them the opportunity to live a healthy and happy life.

Juan Luis Guerra

#9. When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

Joan Didion

#10. I know. Life is so unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you." "What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him.

Laini Taylor

#11. My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

Phaedrus

#13. What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

James Wolcott

#14. To become a Catholic is not to leave off thinking, but to learn how to think.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Men who are going bald often wear baseball caps.

Rita Rudner

#16. As it's your 50th birthday
The very best of cheers to you
Truthfully, I'm just being selfish
Coz now I am so cheerful, too
Happy, Cheerful Birthday

John Walter Bratton

#17. Puppy presents on the rug. This sucked.

Kim Harrison

#18. Like I was in a helicopter crash, I tell her.

Karina Halle

#19. If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Henry Rollins