Birthday Quotes - Page 28

• Old age is a shipwreck.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Age, Aging, Shipwreck

  Charles de Gaulle (1964). “The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle”

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• Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Long, Age

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• The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Science, Age, Credit

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• Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

  Ruth Gordon

  Inspiration, Boredom, Temples

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• A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Justice, Age, Add

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

  Billy Graham

  Age, Aging, Problem

  "I hope they'll say that he was faithful". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. June 23, 2005.

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• But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

  Tom Hanks

  Crush, Baby, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Meaningful, Falling Water, Great Day

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• How young can you die of old age?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Age

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• Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

  Lois Wyse

  Reality, Age, Dresses

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

  William Butler Yeats

  Race, Long, Healthy

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• Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

  Jim Davis

  Life, Feel Good, Hot

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• Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Love, Life, Happiness

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