Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

Mark Twain

Life should begin with age and it's privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and it's capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Mark Twain

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

Christina Hendricks

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

Christian Dior

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

Chris Martin

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

Havelock Ellis

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Frances Conroy

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

George Santayana

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

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?

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.

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.

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.