Birthday Quotes - Page 19

• I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

  Eva Gabor

  Loyalty, Believe, Age

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• On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

  Akshay Kumar

  Years, Wife, Age

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

  William Wordsworth

  Wise, Time, Mind

  William Wordsworth, “Fountain, The: A Conversation”

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• A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Old Habits, Clothes, Good Times

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• Oh, to be seventy again!

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Humor, Age

  "Ego 3". Book by James Agate, 1938.

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Death, Men

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• 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 Vegas

  Sex, School, Mind

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