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Milestone birthday Quotes

11 quotes from 11 authors

Milestone birthdays feel like landmarks that suddenly make you stare at the calendar and wonder what the next decade holds. The few quotes capture pride, fear of anticlimax, and the moment you see yourself in a stranger’s silhouette at dusk. If aging and identity intrigue you, explore pages on anniversaries or gratitude.

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

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Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

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When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

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If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn

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Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

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You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to…

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The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly…

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.

Keith Waterhouse

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Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed…

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Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired…

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