Birthday Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Past, Thinking, Age

  "Amanda Seyfried Is Perfectly Charming In The Film While We’re Young". Interview with Debra Wallace, pcmreviews.com.

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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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• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  Daniel Craig

  Regret, Ideas, Insane

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• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  Ang Lee

  Memories, Years, Collective Memory

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

  Marvin Davis

  Men, Toys, Expensive

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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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• There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

  Susan Anton

  Age, Aging, Possibility

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• I get all fired up about aging in America.

  Willard Scott

  Fire, America, Aging

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Gratitude, Horse, Italian

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Redneck, College, Years

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• By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  Marie Dressler

  Maturity, Turning 50, Important

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

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• One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fortune Cookie, Age, Too Late

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• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Teenage, Cutting

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

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