Quotes of the Week - Nov 10, 2009:
"I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." --
Bernie Madoff, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in newly released
interview with representatives of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
"This is all happening because my father didn't buy me a train
set as a kid." --Warren Buffett, investor, on his company's $26
billion purchase of Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad - its biggest
deal ever.
"I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears."
-- Rihanna, pop singer, on the unprecedented levels of media attention
she endured after she was assaulted by former boyfriend Chris Brown
in February.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceu
At the age of 20, we don't care what the world thinks of us;
at 30, we worry about what it is thinking of us; at 40, we discover
that it wasn't thinking of us at all. Author Unknown
A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field
of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after
that it is summer time. Lew Wallace
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceau
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.
The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping
of their wits. Hervey Allen
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the
wit; and at forty, the judgement. Benjamin Franklin
Thirty the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning
list of single men to know, a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm,
thinning hair. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still
for a woman of thirty. Robert Frost
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and
your body starts falling apart. Caryn Leschen
After 30, a body has a mind of its own. Bette Midler
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is
full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five
for years. Oscar Wilde
When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see
yourself acting like your parents. Blair Sabol
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something
to teach us - something more than we could learn by ourselves,
from a book. Cyril Connolly
I'm turning thirty this year. And you know the saying, a
woman over thirty is more likely to get hit by an A bomb than
find a man. Fanny Fink
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing
or two, and knowledge is always alluring. Pierce Brosnan
I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out f
the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at
myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and
appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman.
I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the
rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age;
I'd just look up one day and be old. Terry MacMillan
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. George William Curtis
The I just woke up face of your 30's is the all day long face
of your 40's. Libby Reid
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind,
it doesn't matter. Jack Benny
You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you
are looking wonderful. Francis Cardinal Spellman
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up
speed. Charles Schulz
35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women
of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice,
remained thirty-five for years. Oscar Wilde