Toast for 50th Birthday

If you were asked to make a toast for a 50th birthday, would you be thrilled or scared to death? At first it can sound impossible to come up with an idea, but once you give some thought to it, it can be pretty simple.

A perfect way to begin the toast would be to give a brief but amusing tale of something that happened in the past between you and the fifty year old. A bit of humor usually puts everyone at ease, (including you!) and a little laughter will set the tone for the rest of the 50th birthday toast. Fast forward to the present, and say something about the person that is relevant to them today. You can say how she is dazzling, magnificent, over the hill, over the top, and that everyone is over the moon about her!

You can end it by saying, "And to quote (so and so)....." and pick one of these quotes:

• "Don't count the days, make the days count." -Muhammad Ali
  
  
• "The bad part is that you have to grow old before somebody will tell you that you look young for your age." – Milton Berle
  
  
• "As we grow older, year by year, My husband always mourns. The less and less we feel our oats, The more we feel our corns." - Evelyn Amuedo Wade
• "I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me...they're cramming for their final exam." – George Carlin
  
  
• "40 is the old age of youth; 50 is the youth of old age." – French proverb
  
  
• "If you're old enough to know better, you're old enough to do it." – George Burns
  
  
• "The longer I live the less future there is to worry about." – Ashleigh Brilliant
  
  
• I don't think I'll ever live to be a hundred. I've been 50 for 20 years now." – Helen Ksypka
  
  
• "You're at that age when everything Mother Nature gave you, Father Time is taking away." –Milton Berle
  
  
• "When you can finally afford the rings you want, you'd rather no one noticed your hands." - Lois Muehl
  
  
• "Competitiveness is a personality thing and competitive people don't become pushovers the day they turn 50." – Hale Irwin
  
  
• "I'd like to make a toast for your 50th birthday because tomorrow you won't remember it." - Mort Wharton
  
  
• "You know you're getting older when the candles cost more than the cake." - Bob Hope
  
  

  More quotes for a toast for a 50th birthday:

  
  
  
• "You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly." – Ronald Reagan
  
  
• "A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." – John Barrymore
  
  
• "If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old." – James Garfield
  
  
• "I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too." – Gloria Swanson
  
  
• "I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from inside look ten to twenty years younger." – Dolly Parton
  
  
• "Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another." –F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
  
• "Women are just beginning at 40. At 50 you hit your power." – Lauren Hutton
  
  
• "If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."– Henry Ford
  
  
• "I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person ten years from now than I am today. I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open." - Clint Eastwood

Good luck with your toast for a 50th birthday!