Birthday Quotes - Page 27

• 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.

  Salma Hayek

  Spiritual, Believe, Age

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• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Age, Youth

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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Risk, Age, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Past, Opposites

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• On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

  Eva Herzigova

  My Birthday, Milan, Collections

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• All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

  James Hillman

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

  Bob Hope

  Naps, Age, Noon

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• Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Cost, Insurance Agent

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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Time, Positive Thinking, Wrinkles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Men, Thinking

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Mean, Enthusiasm For Life

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• The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Winning, And Love, World

  "Changes". Poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, published in John Bartlett "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

  Marvin Davis

  Men, Toys, Expensive

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• Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

  Roger Mahony

  Law, Guilt, States

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• If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!

  Roland Freisler

  Mouths, Ifs

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• You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

  Preston Sturges

  Theatre, Cards, Next

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• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

  Mason Cooley

  Journey, Hiking, Age

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• I'm not afraid of aging.

  Shelley Duvall

  Age, Aging, Not Afraid

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Meaningful, Heart

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• Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

  Evan S. Connell

  Funny, Meaningful, Waiting

  EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. (1959). “MRS. BRIDGE”

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• 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

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

  Kathy Lette

  Relationship, Humorous, Intelligent

  Kathy Lette (2010). “Men: A User's Guide”, p.1, Random House

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• We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

  Jules Renard

  Twenties, Midlife, Forty

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• I get all fired up about aging in America.

  Willard Scott

  Fire, America, Aging

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• There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

  Rene Russo

  Funny, Beautiful, Meaningful

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