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.

Charles Dickens

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Charles Caleb Colton

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

Charles Caleb Colton

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

Charles Caleb Colton

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Charles Caleb Colton

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Charles Spurgeon

To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.

Charles Spurgeon

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Denis Leary

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Chadwick Boseman

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,

Brian Tracy

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.

Edward Abbey

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

Jim Carrey

Second year in a row -- what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Chris Castro

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