Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Bernard Baruch

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Cat Deeley

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

Carlos Ghosn

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Gabriel Byrne

The person I was with was organizing my birthday party, and also happens to be a good friend of mine, who is a married woman. If you don't mind, drop the Post. What they indicated was a complete concoction.

As you may or may not know, we're going to dedicate the sculpture to celebrate our 100th birthday during the Red Dress Run.

Jerry Spinelli

Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.

Willard Scott

I just want to take this opportunity to wish a Happy Birthday to all of you out there celebrating your 100th birthday today.

Paris Hilton

I'm really excited to meet you and I know tomorrow's your birthday. I just wanted to show you my house and also give you a surprise!

I love this stuff. I had all my birthdays here as a kid.

I want something done. It didn't have to be my child. It could have been yours. It could have been theirs. It ain't just mine! A kid was killed before mine. She was at home getting ready for school. My kid was at a birthday party. She wasn't doing nothing wrong!

I want Jess for my birthday March 19.

It will be a special day. A win would be a great birthday present.

Chuck Feeney

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

They were preparing a nice meal for Dayna Curry, whose birthday was on the 4th (of November), ... Over the past few days it had been relatively quiet in Kabul proper and I think emotionally they had all come to develop a sense of resignation that they were in for the long haul, that they were doing OK emotionally but they certainly did want to get out of there as soon as they could.

They were preparing a nice meal for Dayna Curry, whose birthday was on the 4th (November). Over the past few days it had been relatively quiet in Kabul proper and I think emotionally they had all come to develop a sense of resignation -- that they were in for the long haul, that they were doing OK emotionally, but they certainly did want to get out of there as soon as they could.

Wayne Coyne

There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

This is the seventh Giro stage win of my career and it's a gift for my son Ewan because it's his third birthday on Wednesday.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Doris Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Colleen McCullough

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Chris Bosh

I haven't won on my birthday since college, so it's good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

Andy Roddick

I really honestly wish I didn't have a birthday in this tournament.

Celine Dion

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

David Walker

In the middle, middle of the monsoon season, lying there soaking wet and the spoilsports didn't come! And that's when I had, because I can always remember just lying there saying to myself, the water just running down my neck and that, I said, 'Well David. There's not many people get a twenty first birthday party like this.'

Bill Ward

I guess this feels like four Birthdays and four Christmases, ... First, we're going to see family and have dinner. I want to see everybody again-- just kind of see who grew up and who changed.

Frank Robinson

I guess they decided to give me a birthday present.

David Gilmour

I had a great party for my 50th birthday, and I'm having a nice little one this time. But it's sad how many people aren't going to be there, because they've died in the intervening years. There's been a lot of carnage around me, and I'm sort of looking at that list.

Stella Young

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Romola Garai

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.