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 it is considered quite a milestone, it is celebrated with a great gusto. Obviously, you must be willing to wish the person in a very special way. Instead of saying the same old sentence "Many happy returns of the day", you can use some meaningful quotes. It would be a perfect gift for the birthday boy/girl, and they will feel honored by these thoughtful wordings. Funny 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 Try these quotes instead of those mundane 'happy birthday' messages, and stand out.