Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophocles

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Stephen Hopkins

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Shirley MacLaine

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Shahrukh Khan

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.

Pierre Corneille

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Pierre Corneille

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Katy Perry

No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

Randall Jarrell

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

James M. Barrie

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Stephanie Cutter

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

Soren Kierkegaard

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Russell Baker

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Ron Ben-Israel

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

Rick Springfield

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Wilson Mizner

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Will Rogers

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Samuel Ullman

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Samuel Ullman

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.