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As these birthdays are special milestones and?represent the passing of a 'getting old'?threshold?the verses are often longer, more personalised and even take the form of a speech/eulogy or scroll
The words thirty, forty, fifty etc...are not good for rhyming?but when used as "the big three-O", "four-O", "five-O" and so on, the rhyming possibilities greatly increase. The -oe- sound has lots of simple rhyming words/expressions like ago, get-up-and-go, from-top-to-toe, show, slow and so on
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Congratulations, Billy
You've reached the big "Four-O"
You were born in the last millennium
So that's a long, long time ago
While on numbers, it is useful to use, for example, 39 for anyone over 40:-
Happy Birthday (Billy)
And my, don't you look fine
Given your advancing years
Fast approaching 39
Or
You've outgrown my lap, but not my heart
O (Maureen) daughter of mine
Growing up's for trees, so why not stay
Forever 39
Or use the same approach for, not just the recipient's age but the sender's, as well:-
You're (24) already, (son)
Nearly over the hill, oh my
And as you face advancing years
Unfortunately, so do I
So let's make a deal together
We'll use?the same party line
You're a smidgin' over 21?? (You're a little under 21)
I'm a tad over 39?? (I'm not quite 39)
And bringing Granny into the ruse
I heard about your mother's deal
I'll go along with it, that's fine
Now, raise your arm and swear this oath
"My Grandma's 59"
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TOAST TO?A FRIEND CELEBRATING?A?BIG-O?BIRTHDAY
Heartiest congratulations (Name)
On reaching the big (Four)-O
You've had a very hard and gruelling life
And Boy!? does it show
So we asked the "Ten Years Younger" lass
If she could see her way clear
To make?a programme about you
And I've got her reply right here
(Open envelope as if seeing letter for first time)
Dear Jon
I've studied the?pics you sent me
And what is very clear
We're very good at what we do
But we're not that good, dear
There's not enough surgeons in this world
I don't wish to be mean
But have you considered?a quick sand blast
Some glue and plasticine
And Jon, please don't read this out aloud
Lest it might?offend
Oh!???? (pause)
Folks let's raise our glasses for a toast
To (Name) our very...very old friend
With advancing years you've gained understanding
That can't be denied
We couldn't have insulted you any more
But believe us, (Name), we tried
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Here's a?whole bunch of "age insults" that can be chosen to incorporate into your own poem
Heartiest congratulations (Bill) (husband), dear
On reaching the big (Five) (Six)-O
You've?been a dynamic whirlwind all your?life
But now you're running?slow
To my?"lets go upstairs and make passionate love"
You used to bound up with glee
Now it's?"I?can't do stairs and?passion? ..
You'll have to?choose which one it's to be"
You used to be insatiable
You were always there on cue
Now the expression?"all nighter" means
Not getting up for the loo
As for the fact?you're thinning
That's hardly fair
You're not?folically challenged
You've just outgrown your hair
Lots of folk have 40 winks
That's a natural response
You do that and read the paper
While watching telly, all at once
So it's OK for you to slow down
You're getting older, after all
It's time for you to invest in a pipe
Some slippers and a shawl
The clues that you're getting old
Are there?(Bill) it's true
Your belt won't buckle any more
But your knees most certainly do
You've entered your 70th decade
But you look good all the same
Who cares if your hair is thin and grey
And you'll suit a Zimmer frame
We've been?together since we were young
We're now getting old, and how
The fire is still within us
We just call it heartburn now
Now you've reached this old old age
Don't start to dye your hair
Don't think of having face lifts
And don't change the clothes you wear
Don't modify your language
Don't rebel and cause outrage
Decide to do the decent thing
Just lie about your age
Anyway you're not at all like a (50) year old
And I?mean what?I?say
Mind you, being a (Jim Reeves) fan
Is a dead giveaway
Enough of all these insults
I do hope you realise
How highly you?re respected
How kind you are, and wise
God bless you on your birthday
Let the celebrations start
Enjoy life?s oh so precious gifts
And?remain young at heart.
For age is just a state of mind
And life can be such fun
And you?still know?how to party
As much as anyone
So let's make this a?memorable occasion
In every single way
And I'll be there to help you
Ensure it's a?wonderful day
The love of friends and family
Will be with you today
So enjoy the many wishes
Which are bound to come your way
Let your (50th) (60th) Birthday
Be the best one of your life
...so far..
This comes with love from (Name)
Your best friend and wife
Jon Bratton c 2006
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If life begins at 40....
What just ended?for you??
Happy 40th Birthday
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Her Majesty isn't sending you a telegram this year
but...
...she's happy to know you're halfway there!
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(40th) Birthday
In cricket, what's a nothing score?
The answer's not hard
You've reached the score of (Four) Nothing
Hence (four) ducks on your card
Jon Bratton ? 2007
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Just because you're (30) (40) (50),?
Don't?despair, oh no
Overnight you won't?discover
You've lost your get up and go.?
Nor will?you become?all wrinkled,
Nor ache from head to toe.
So even though you're?ripening
Don't regard it as a blow,
You won't suddenly look?decrepid ....
...Cos that happened?long ago!!
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Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.
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Face facts, buddy
You've reached that stage
When people who look old
Are only?half your age.
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Forty is the old age of youth;
Fifty is the youth of old age.
(Victor Hugo)
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Forty isn't old...
If you're a tree !
Happy Birthday,
you young sapling you
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You're not young enough to know everything.?
Oscar Wilde??said that
You're a WOW...Wiser Older Woman
I said that?
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Congratulations Mummsie
It's time to be running slow
After all, you're now an OAP
Having reached the big Six-O
It's time you put your feet up
To ease arthritic pains
Not lugging heavy luggage
On and off jet aeroplanes
It's time for shawl and slippers
And a touch of blue rinse/bleach
Not lying about half naked
On a foreign holiday beach
But as it's your birthday
You're entitled to get tipsy
A very happy birthday, Mum
You geriatric gypsy
Jon Bratton ? 2007
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You?still have a full deck;?you just shuffle slower now.
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You're?sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius.
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The best years of a woman's life - the ten years between 39 and 40
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Birthdays are good for you; the more you have the longer you live!???
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. Dave Barry
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright
Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. Fred Astaire?
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.- Phyllis Diller
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.- John P. Grier
If I'd known I was going to live this long,
I'd have taken better care of myself- Ubie Blake
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
Branch Rickey
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. ~ Tom Stoppard
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.? Lucille Ball
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.? Anna Magnani
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be....? Robert Browning?
You take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it. -- Henry Ford
It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. -- Brigitte Bardot
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men. -- Colleen McCullough
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -- Jimi Hendrix?
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty, but it's up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. -- Coco Chanel
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.- C.E.M. Joad
Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty eight and forty. -- James Thurber.
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
A well adjusted woman is one who not only knows what she wants for her birthday, but even knows what she's going to exchange it for.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants. Edward Steichen
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. Chili Davis
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. Jennifer Yane
It takes a long time to grow young.Pablo Picasso
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.Dan Bennett
On my 60th birthday my wife gave me a superb birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.Jean Paul Richter
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
Samuel Beckett
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
To me, old age is always ten years older than I am. -- John Burroughs
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -- Robert Frost?
?The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. -- English Proverb?
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits? Hervey Allen
?To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.?Henri Frederic Amiel?
?Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Thomas Arnold?
?I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. Lady Nancy Astor?
?Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. Daniel Auber?
?I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.? Alan Bleasdale?
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.?Les Brown?
?A woman's always younger than a man at equal years. Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
?Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it. George Burns?
?It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. Emily Carr?
?Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself.Ethel Barrymore
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. Dorothy Fulheim
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.George Bernard Shaw
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith?
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We are always the same age inside. -- Gertrude Stein?
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. -- Reverend Larry Lorenzoni?
?Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. -- Bob Hope
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it. -- Doris Day
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. -- Margaret Mead?
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. -- Oliver Goldsmith
35th & 30th Birthday Quotes
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.- Georges Clemenceau
Time and Tide wait for no man,
but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.- Robert Frost
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart. - Caryn Leschen
After 30, a body has a mind of its own.- Bette Midler.
40th Birthday Quotes
Be wise with speed;
A fool at forty is a fool indeed.- Edward Young
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. - French Proverb
50th Birthday Quotes
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.- Joan Rivers ?
At age 50, everyone has the face he deserves.- George Orwell
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.- Muhammad Ali
You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.- Henry Ford
60th Birthday Quotes
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
- Arnold Bennett
Some people reach the age of sixty before others. Lord Hood
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.- Pablo Picasso
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