Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Khalil Gibran

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Norman Rockwell

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Orson Welles

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

O. J. Simpson

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

Michael Caine

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Mason Cooley

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Mason Cooley

Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.

Mason Cooley

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

Mary Antin

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

Michel Foucault

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

Marie Dressler

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Henry Ford

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

Genevieve Gorder

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

James M. Barrie

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Emma Thompson

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

Heidi Klum

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

John Irving

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

John Heywood

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

Jonathan Hickman

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

Jim Gilmore

The company could offer a birthday venue at its distribution center by designing a room with a glass wall looking out to the warehouse.

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.