Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lew Wallace

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Lewis Carroll

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Joseph Campbell

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

John Mayer

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

John Mayer

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

John Mayer

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Lydon

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John L. Phillips

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Jimmy Buffett

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

Katharine Hepburn

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Leighton Meester

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Lawrence Tierney

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

John Kenneth Galbraith

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

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.

Joy Page

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Julianna Margulies

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Jules Renard

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Karl Jaspers

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Julie Walters

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Haruki Murakami

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Haruki Murakami

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.