Quotes About Perspective

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a large margarita

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Age for me is just a number.

If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

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

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.