Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

One man in his time plays many parts.

We haven't done anything for him yet. We'll probably sing happy birthday to him or something.

Alexander Pope

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Washington's Birthday is a time to get people started. Hopefully most of the winter is gone.

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

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.

Joan Rivers

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

Franka Potente

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Edward Steichen

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

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.

Joseph Addison

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Jonathan Swift

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Kevin Smith

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Kevin Spacey

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Khalil Gibran

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

Liz Carpenter

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Loretta Lynn

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Lord Chesterfield

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Malcolm Forbes

Old age is not for sissies.

Malcolm Cowley

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

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.