Birthday Quotes - Page 18

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

  Pierre Corneille

  Enemy, Despair, Age

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• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny Life, Mistake, Coffee

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• Old is always fifteen years from now.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Years

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

  Ann Coulter

  Philosophical, Swings, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Noel Coward

  Tuesday, Age, Next

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• The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

  Sloane Crosley

  Queens, Gun, Thinking

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, History, Age

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Courage, Blessed, Individuality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

  John Irving

  Sports, Writing, Wrestling

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• A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  Washington Irving

  Anger, Age, Tongue

  The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon "Rip Van Winkle" (1819 - 1820)

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• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  Janet Jackson

  Hair, Age, Buns

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• I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

  Henry James

  Regret, Thinking, Vision

  Letter to Hugh Walpole, 21 Aug. 1913

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• 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 James

  Character, Age, World

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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

  Randall Jarrell

  Yellow, People, Age

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  "Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness".

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• I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  Billy Joel

  Insecurity, Age, Aging

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

  Elton John

  Trust, Loyalty, Age

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• We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

  Elton John

  Love, War, People

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• We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Luxury, Age

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• 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

  Sex, Giving Up, Flirty

  Samuel Johnson (2002). “A Johnson Sampler”, Non Pareil Books

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

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Vintage, Sentimental, Age And Experience

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• Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

  James Joyce

  Passion, Other Worlds, Age

  James Joyce, Laurence Davies (1993). “Dubliners”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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• The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Racism, Parent

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• There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Men, Views, Age

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