21st Birthday Sayings

21st birthday is considered as a very special moment in a person's life. It is supposed to bring a sense of responsibility along with inspiration and motivation to achieve your goals. Since 21st birthday is considered quite a milestone, it is celebrated with a great gusto. Obviously, you must be willing to wish the person, who is celebrating his/her 21st birthday, in a very special way. Instead of saying the same old sentence "Many happy returns of the day", you can use some meaningful birthday quotes and sayings. It would be a perfect birthday gift for the birthday boy/girl and he/she will feel honored by these thoughtful wordings. So let's have a look at some excellent 21st birthday sayings.

21st Birthday Sayings

"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important." - Franklin P. Adams

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment." - Benjamin Franklin

"At the age of twenty, we don't care what the world thinks of us; at thirty, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at forty, we discover that it wasn't thinking of us at all." - Anonymous

"Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I've been doing since 15." - Anonymous

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." - Franz Kafka

"When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life." - Robert Southey

"The secret to eternal youth is arrested development." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"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

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time." - Jean Paul Richter

"My heart is like a singing bird... Because the birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me." - Christina Rossetti

How swift have flown
To me thy girlish times,
A woman grown beneath
My heedless eyes!
In vain I rack
My fancy to believe
The almanac,
That speaks thee twenty-one. - Charles Lamb

"Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth." - Ralph Parlette

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed." - Anthony Powell