Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Michael

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Noel Coward

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

The early birth of it came for us in sixth grade. We were talking about how nice it would be to travel cross-country in college.

The fools take pride in themselves, and are ruined in birth and death.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Lee Iacocca

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.

Simone de Beauvoir

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

We are African in origin and American in birth.

Roger Mahony

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Thomas Menino

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

Robin Gibb

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Rob Jackson

May today be a happy memory, tomorrow a bright new promise. Happy Birthday

Rob Jackson

n this changing world, it's nice to know that one thing is forever... you'll always be my sister! Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Sister

Rob Jackson

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday

Richard J. Needham

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Walter Lord

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Voltaire

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

William Feather

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

William Butler Yeats

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

Walter Dean Myers

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Yigal Azrouel

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

Willie Geist

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Vincent Gallo

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.