Dearest Fellow Kenyans,
As Kenyans, young and old, resident or non-resident, prepare to celebrate 50 years of Kenya's Independence, we need to reflect on the past, review the present and, possibly, look into the future.
There are some words of wisdom you may have heard about 50:
- 50 Gates
- The Year of Jubilees
- Take care of the health of your teeth and stomach for the first 50 years, and they will take care of you for the next 50 years!
- Dare to be Wise!
Other sources have the following words to cheer you up on your 50th birthday!
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
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
Joan Rivers
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.
Richard GriffithsThe 61-year-old actor joins the grumpy old men's club
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Author Unknown
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
Martial
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Larry Lorenzoni
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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.
Author Unknown
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
Plato
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
Here's a birthday spanking,
Sent you on a card,
One, Two, Three,
Put them right on hard,
Four, Five, Six
One to live on, one to grow on,
One to make you fat…
Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
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
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Benjamin Franklin
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Pope Paul VI
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Author Unknown
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Author Unknown
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas B. Aldrich
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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
Author Unknown
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off.
Author Unknown
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
Author Unknown
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Make hay while the sun shines.
Proverb
Coco Chanel
Looking fifty is great--if you're sixty.
Joan Rivers
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.
Richard GriffithsThe 61-year-old actor joins the grumpy old men's club
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter
Men are like wine: some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.
Author Unknown
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
Martial
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
Larry Lorenzoni
Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.
Edward Steichen
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
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.
Author Unknown
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
Jonathan Swift
Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.
Plato
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
Here's a birthday spanking,
Sent you on a card,
One, Two, Three,
Put them right on hard,
Four, Five, Six
One to live on, one to grow on,
One to make you fat…
Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
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
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.
Billie Burke
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope
One to-day is worth two to-morrows.
Benjamin Franklin
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
Pope Paul VI
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Author Unknown
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Author Unknown
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas B. Aldrich
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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it.
Author Unknown
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom
When I have a birthday I take the day off. But when my wife has a birthday, she takes a year or two off.
Author Unknown
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
Author Unknown
We are always the same age inside.
Gertrude Stein
The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Make hay while the sun shines.
Proverb
And last but, not least, some poetry..
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.
~ Funny 50th Birthday Quotes ~
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.
~ Funny 50th Birthday Quotes ~
Of late I appear
To have reached that stage
When people who look old
Who are only my age
~ Richard Armour ~
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 ~
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 ~
We pray, One of the Resolutions you could be thinking of for the next 50 years is:
"First Liberty Insurance Agency - My Preferred Insurance Partner to walk/ride along with"
