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.

Darren Shan

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Bible Bible

With well doing you may put to silence foolish men.

Nicolas Chamfort

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Ben Jonson

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

Matt Maldre

So many of us speak foolish when we should be speaking english.

Aleister Crowley

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

Bible Bible

For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: / As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Gustavo Kuerten

I have a lot of plans for the year and I don't want to jeopardize those by doing something foolish in one day of play.

Terri Morrison

I feel they're spending money foolishly on a lot of different issues.

Chad Harbach

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

Billy Joel

Only the good die young.

Ed Westwick

Live fast, die young.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Benjamin Franklin

Spare when young, and spend when old.

Desi Arnaz

Since I was very young I have always worked hard at whatever I have had to do.

Diane von Furstenberg

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Dhirubhai Ambani

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millennium.

Brigitte Bardot

I have not always loved wisely, but I was young.