Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Solomon Ortiz

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Stephanie Cutter

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

Soren Kierkegaard

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Marcus Aurelius

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Marc Jacobs

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

Robert A. Heinlein

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

Tiger Woods

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

Thomas Szasz

We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control.

Stevie Nicks

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Stevie Nicks

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

Steven Wright

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

Steven Wright

I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it.

Steven Wright

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

Tom Stoppard

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Tom Stoppard

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Tom Hanks

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Tom Hanks

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Rupert Everett

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Toby Keith

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

Thomas Carlyle

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Stephen Hopkins

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stephen Hawking

Galileo , perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Shirley MacLaine

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Shahrukh Khan

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Steven Morrissey

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Sue Townsend

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Robert Browning

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.