Quotes About Your 50th Birthday

#1. 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

#2. One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Marianne Williamson

#3. 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

#4. I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

Marcia Gay Harden

#5. One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

Pablo Picasso

#6. 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

#7. I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket.

Louise Post

#8. Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

H.L. Mencken

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

T. S. Eliot

#10. Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.

Eric Massa

#11. The whole of mankind is one and only one, one race, one class and one society.

Maria Montessori

#12. You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy.
Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright."
"It makes me incapable of reason.

Nalini Singh

#13. For my sister's 50th birthday, I sent her a singing mammogram.

Steven Wright

#14. On my 50th birthday in 2005, my discount-wielding AARP card came in the mail. I hurled it in the trash, put on something fabulous, and had a decadent meal. Just the thought of putting it in my wallet felt like a concession.

Iman

#15. I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday. There is no bigger Bob Dylan fan than me. You don't just time the day and impregnate your wife to get your kid to be born on Bob Dylan's 50th birthday.

Charlie Trotter

#16. For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Gene Siskel

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

H. H. Asquith

#18. Magistra, if you save my student, I don't care a snap what you say about my heart.
She snorted. Typical of a man, caring only when an external organ is belittled.

Blake Charlton

#19. 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

#20. I don't care if you've just won an Oscar, you still have to campaign for parts.

Steve Zahn

#21. The spirit should never grow old.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#22. And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

Graeme Murphy

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

Dave Barry

#24. Many massacres have happened when people yell surprise! Pearl Harbor. The Tet Offensive. My uncle's 50th birthday party. I was there, man! How many more people gotta die?

Christopher Titus

#25. Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today ... the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer