Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Pratchett

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Margaret Sanger

On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

Margaret Mitchell

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Margaret Mitchell

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Margaret Mead

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Fuller

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

Kin Hubbard

I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.

Kin Hubbard

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

Kin Hubbard

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

Michael Bloomberg

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.

Michelangelo

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Enid Bagnold

From birth to death we are alone ...

Jane Wagner

The idea is for students to learn about the human milestones from birth to the aging.

Emmy Rossum

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Henry Rollins

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Helen Hayes

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Helen Hayes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Gurley Brown

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

Hedy Lamarr

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Hector Hugh Munro

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

Lance Burton

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

Lisa Loeb

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

James Joyce

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

James Rollins

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

James Russell Lowell

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Jon Bon Jovi

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Johnny Vegas

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.