Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Gene Fowler

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Jeanne Moreau

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Jeanne Moreau

If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Jeanne Moreau

I've never worried about age.

Jeanne Moreau

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francis Schaeffer

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Ian Dury

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

Ian Fleming

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

If I had known that he was only a wretched heron from birth, I would not have touched him.

I decided since it was my birthday I was going to shoot it anyway.

Amber Benson

I do think that if MEN were the ones that bore the children a more effective means of birth control would have been implemented years ago.

Tom Flores

I am planning on getting my son a bow for his birthday. By having him take this class and rent a bow, I know what kind to get him.

Britney Spears

I don't want to go through the pain. My mom said giving birth was the most excruciating thing she's ever gone through in her life.

William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws his beams!

However, because Oregon does not have 100 percent screening, some infants may slip through the cracks. Administering hepatitis B vaccine at birth provides a safety net that protects all infants.

Jeremy Collier

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.

I call it the birthday cake model. We need to have building codes, but we do not want to turn the town into a homeowners association. One of the reasons I live here is due to the general mind-set that less government is better.

Michael Sheen

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

Harvey Weinstein

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Jack White

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

J. R. R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

Elton John

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Because, death is certain for the one who is born, and birth is certain for the one who dies. Therefore, you should not lament over the inevitable.

Francis Escudero

Because of so many people who remembered his birthday, I can now see that he will be successful in whatever position he will run for in the future. It's because he knows how to love, so many love him in return. He's a sincere man. Happy birthday!

Hopefully it is the only birthday this hearing will have, though, your honour, ... We will see!

Morgan Freeman

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.