Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Charles Caleb Colton

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

Charles Caleb Colton

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Charles Dickens

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

Charles Stross

I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.

Charles Spurgeon

Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!

Alan Rickman

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

Alan Jackson

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Alda

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.

J. Taylor

We're in an information age, yet from a public notification perspective, we're still ... in the Stone Age,

Mark Twain

We have no permanent brains until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up -- and that is one of the main things.

Peggy Sell

We want everyone to feel that their library card is special, regardless of their age. We want them to know that, as soon as you get a library card, it becomes part of your life.

William Wordsworth

With Nature never do they wageA foolish strife; they seeA happy youth, and their old ageIs beautiful and free.

Paul Sereno

We're going to dinosaur-age beds, huge tracts of the Sahara that nomads may have crossed, but there's not a word written about that.

Dr. Cykiert

We're expecting to see more age-related macular degeneration because the baby boomer generation is approaching that age, and everyone is living longer. It potentially could be devastating.

Ed Fox

We're father and son. When I was his age, I did the same things. I got caught for things. I never got caught as many times as he did, but I had trouble in school.

Evan Hendricks

Ultimately, it's a human rights issue in the information age.

Goldie Hawn

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

Catherine Deneuve

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

Robert Collins

The other police departments look at our badges and say, 'Harrison?' ... Then they do a double take and say 'Harrison, New York.'

Nate Emge

We started slow and really dug ourselves a hole with the doubles losses. We knew we had to win.

Michael Starke

We struggled with the weather and our doubles were hot and cold.

Rob Hummel

(West) makes it a lot easier for us. He helps us out a lot -- teams can't double team us, so we're very happy to have him back.

Frank Haith

When you run at him or you double him, he's a team player. He does a great job of looking for open teammates.

Brian Smith

When we get at least three guys in double figures we win pretty big.

LeBron James

We got up by double digits, and in everyone's mind was what happened on Thursday when they made their run. I didn't want that to happen again.

Tony Stewart

We are getting ready to expand the restrooms on the grandstand side; it is a big project to double the size to handle the capacity. I am just excited about it.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

Julie Andrews

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

Mike Wallace

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Christine Pelosi

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Ray LaHood

He's like a retired prince, ... He doesn't have to rush.

Jennifer Capriati

There's no timetable right now. I can't say one way or the other, but I'm not retired by all means.

Shane Warne

I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return.

Sacheen Littlefeather

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Ava Gardner

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.