Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustave Flaubert

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

John Dryden

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

John Dryden

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Maya Angelou

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

Maya Angelou

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Karl Marx

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

O. Henry

This was my birthday present. Winning the game was all I really wanted. It was a cutting fastball a little bit over the plate. It was a huge win after (Friday). We were real flat coming back from (playing) Dixie State. We needed a win to get us on a roll.

Colt Brennan

This was like our birthday. Before the game, we said, 'It starts from today.' We came here with a purpose, and I thought we played with one. We got the job done, and, hey, we're in first place, right?

They just wanted to make her birthday special. This is what Chelsea wanted to do.

Jim Croce

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

Jim Cramer

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

Jessica Savitch

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Jenny McCarthy

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

Paul Ryan

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Paris Hilton

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Laurence J. Peter

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Muhammad Ali

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Muhammad Ali

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

Muhammad Ali

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

Muhammad Ali

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

Marian McPartland

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

Nadine Gordimer

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Naguib Mahfouz

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Princess Diana

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

Princess Diana

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

Pope Paul VI

The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.

Rachel Maddow

My life is better with every year of living it.