Middle age birthday toasts

Time to hit that bucket list

The neat thing about middle age birthday toasts is that they poke fun at the onset of aches, pains and latent maturity. The grand finale still seems decades away so now is the time to laugh and live life to its fullest.

Here are some ideas that that may inspire you to add some fun to your toasts or cards if you are helping someone celebrate a birthday who is in their 40s, 50s or beyond.

Remember, 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 30.

So  you qualify as middle-aged if you are at least 20 years out of school and not yet in a nursing home.

Birthdays come and birthdays go
And with each passing year, we grow.
The place to expand should be the mind
Too bad it's more likely a spreading behind.
    -- PPM

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
    -- Tom Stoppard

When I was young, I was told, "You'll see when you are 50."
Now that I'm 50, I can't see a thing.
    -- Erik Satie

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.
    -- Lucille Ball

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
    -- Robert Frost

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
    -- Jack Benny

Of all the things I've lost, the one I miss the most is my mind.
    -- Mark Twain

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
     -- H.V. Prochnow

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    -- Bernard Baruch.

More middle age birthday toasts

  Few women admit their age.
  Few men act theirs.
    -- Anonymous

  If you were to take all the                experience and judgment
  of men over 50 out of the world   there wouldn't be enough left to   run it.
    -- Henry Ford

Middle age is when you've met so many people
that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
    -- Ogden Nash

You've heard of the three ages of man:
youth, age and "you are looking wonderful."
    -- Francis Cardinal Spellman

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
    -- Doris Day

Just remember...once you're over the hill,
you begin to pick up speed.
    --Charles Schultz

At middle age, the soul should be opening up like a rose.
Not closing like a cabbage.
    -- John Andrew Holmes

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
    -- Bob Hope.

If you want to look young and thin, then hang around old fat people.
    --  Jim Eason

Be kind to your kids. They'll be choosing your nursing home.
    -- Bumper sticker