Funny 50th Birthday Quotes and Sayings about Age that Shed a Positive Light on Getting Older

Looking for some sharp, witty and entertaining funny 50th birthday quotes for that humorous speech or that amusing birthday card?

Look no further, you've come to the right place. :-)

Here we will serve you funny birthday sayings and phrases for every taste and personal mood: sweet and cute, sarcastic and sharp and even some deeply philosophical humorous birthday quotes.

All you need to do is to dig in. It really doesn't get any simpler that that! :-)

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Funny 50th Birthday Quotes on The Benefits of Age, with some Funny Birthday Sayings for Good Measure

A famous man once said: "Life starts when you're 50."

All of the funny birthday quotes below will serve to illustrate how many celebrities and famous historical characters truly started their life at 50, and you may find that the following funny birthday sayings are just what your friend or loved one needs in order to get the right outlook on his or her golden years.

The tone that characterizes many of the funny quotes for the 50th birthday is typically sarcastic and slightly ambiguous, indirectly saying something along the lines of: Yes, you're a lot smarter now than you were when you were younger (which indeed is nice), but often at the expense of the raw strength of your body and the smoothness of your face (which may seem less nice, but now that you're smarter, wiser and aware of the true values in life, you actually don't really care that much. :-)

Ok, enough rambling, let's now leave the stage for some of those funny 50th birthday quotes:

Nature gives you the face you have at 20, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel ~

Men who have reach and passed forty five have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this one.
~ Benjamin Haydon ~

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.
~ Alexander Herzen ~

Happy 50th Birthday!! Let's crack open a bottle of prune juice.
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You've accumulated the knowledge of 50 years on this planet. Now if only the senility hadn't wiped it all away.
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Happy 20th anniversary of your 30th birthday!
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Happy 50th Birthday! Your wild oats have turned to porridge.
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The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. Happy Birthday, you old fiddler.
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
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Being fifty takes stamina and endurance that even youth fails to offer. Happy Birthday!
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A Few Funny Birthday Poems for that 50th Birthday!

Funny 50th birthday quotes are not the only thing with which you can spice up your birthday card. Perhaps the lucky recipient of your mighty birthday effort might enjoy one of these happy birthday poems.

The first birthday poem below is rhyming, uplifting and funny, the second birthday poem is also rhyming while the humor is a lot more subdued, and the last birthday poem in this batch is not as such funny or witty but tries to embody an ambiguous mood of getting older:

Goodness me are you really 50?
And yet you're still really quite nifty.
Suppose now you'll have to be
Staid and refined, not unlike me
So when, if ever, we go out downtown
Who'll get the job of playing the clown?
I guess not us, we'll be toeing the line.
We'll leave that to the youngsters, still 49.
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Of late I appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age
~ Richard Armour ~

I like spring, but it is too young.
I like summer, but it is too proud.
So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.
~ Lin Yü-tang ~

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Funny Birthday Sayings That Inspires the Birthday Child to Take Things Less Seriously

One of the great things about getting older is the accumulating sensation of life's perspective broadening all the time.

When getting older you stop paying that much attention to insignificant details and start measuring things, choices and possibilities in terms of their long term potential.

This 'bigger' perspective on life also means taking many things less serious as you realize they actually don't really matter that much. And when you realize their insignificance, you can laugh about it and yourself.

Here are some funny 50th birthday sayings and quotes that via the help of 'the bigger perspective' will help the birthday child have a good laugh at his or her own situation and age:

There are numerous advantages to being fifty. Just ask any 80 year old.
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If you cannot do great things at 50, do small things in a great way.
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50! Now is the time to make your mark on the world - explore the Antarctic or become an astronaut. Make up your mind to take on exciting new challenges - right after your nap.
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Fifty is the age when you look back and smile at what you have achieved, frown at those missed opportunities, and release a slight chuckle at those moments.
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I'm aiming by the time I'm 50 to stop being an adolescent.
~ Wendy Cope ~

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More Happy Birthday Phrases to Cement That Positive Attitude of Life

Some people see 50 as their final resting point, as the era of life in which everything begins to go downhill. Every funny 50th birthday quote and all of the funny birthday sayings prove the opposite.

Your birthday friend or loved one is entering the point of his or her life in which everything is only going to improve.

Rather than being over the hill, in your birthday speech or birthday card you can emphasize that he or she has simply stormed the hill and taken it.

The rest of the birthday child's life is his or hers, and no one can ever take away what has been learned.

The following funny 50th birthday quotes are perfect to remind your friend or loved on why the next 50 years are going to be amazing, and the funny birthday sayings and funny birthday phases below serve to adjust the right outlook on life:

You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
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At 50, you probably get muddled
I'm the same, that's how I know
If you ever got lost, don't worry
Just change where you want to go
~ Jon Bratton ~

At 50 you now have realized
Getting old isn't fair
And that it's hard to make a comeback
When you haven't gone anywhere
~ Jon Bratton ~

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
~ Louis Kronenberger ~

Not till the fire is dying in the grate look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, and the great price we paid for it was full worth. We have it only when we are half on earth, little avails that coinage to the old.
~ George Meredith ~

Preparation for old age should not begin later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose till 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
~ Arthur E. Morgan ~

When you're fifty, you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think that getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
~ Joyce Carol Oates ~

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding of relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and do unto others as he would have them do unto him.
~ Harry A. Overstreet ~

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
~ Arnold Palmer ~

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
~ Jean Paul Richter ~

When you are younger you are blamed for crimes you never committed, and when you're older you get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
~ I. F. Stone ~

Whether 50 or 15, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next, and the joy in the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage, and power from men and from the infinite, so long you are young.
~ Samuel Ullman ~

Maturity is the ability to speak, think, and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious nearby freedom of death.
~ Walt Whitman ~

As you can see, the 51st year of life is something to be anticipated, looked forward to, and anxiously coveted.

The next year of the birthday child's life is something that should be a time of joy and excitement. It's a new year of learning and growing, and each year that will pass is another year in which the stores of experience have grown.

In this new year, encourage the birthday child to tap into those stores of experience to put to good use the abundance of wisdom that has been accumulated over the last half century.

Happy 50th Birthday from all of us here at Quotescoop.com, and may this be the best year yet.