Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Jon Bon Jovi

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Johnny Vegas

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Johnny Ball

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Carson

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

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.

Khalil Gibran

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Norman Rockwell

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Orson Welles

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

This is a great birthday present. This is a great turnout here tonight. This is what we want as far as the fans and the support and the enthusiasm of everyone because we want this to be a top tournament for everyone.

Jesse McCartney

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

O. J. Simpson

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life and forget your age.

Ellen Glasgow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Emeril Lagasse

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

Simone de Beauvoir

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Tiger Woods

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Satyajit Ray

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Liam Neeson

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Lee Iacocca

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.