Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Vivienne Westwood

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Vivienne Westwood

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Walter Cronkite

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

William Blake

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

William Barclay

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

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.

Walter Dean Myers

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Yigal Azrouel

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

Willie Geist

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Vincent Gallo

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Woody Allen

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

William Wordsworth

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William J. Clinton

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

William James

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William Gilmore Simms

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Salma Hayek

I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

Salma Hayek

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.