Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

Gypsy Rose Lee

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

Gypsy Rose Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jack White

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

J. R. R. Tolkien

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

Elton John

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Francis Schaeffer

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Ian Dury

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

Ian Fleming

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Ernest Hemingway

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Erma Bombeck

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Florence Welch

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

Flip Wilson

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fiona Apple

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Henry Louis Gates

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Henry Miller

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Jennifer Lopez

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

Jean Ingelow

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.

James Caan

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

James Buchan

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

James Buchan

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

Jackson Browne

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

Jackson Browne

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

Christopher Lasch

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.