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.
I have achieved my seventy years in the usual
way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill
anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That
we can't reach old age by another man's road. Mark Twain At his seventieth birthday dinner, in 1905,
as quoted in Saving Your Brain, by Jeff Victoroff.
On my seventieth birthday I felt as if I were standing
on a mountain height, at whose foot the ocean of eternity was
audibly rushing; while before me, life with its deserts and
flower-gardens, its sunny days and its stormy days, spread out
green, wild, and beautiful. Heinrich Zschokke The Consolations of Age, translated from
the German of Zschokke's autobiography.
The first forty years of our life give the text, the
next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us
rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the
text with its moral and its beauties. Schopenhauer
Oh, to be seventy again. Georges Clemenceau On seeing a pretty girl on his eightieth
birthday.
There are three classes into which all the women past
seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old
soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth.
Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay,
it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. Lydia M. Child
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year. Marcus T. Cicero
Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese Billie Burke
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Bernard M Baruch On his 85th birthday
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and
color are their last days. John Burroughs
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long
life. Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it,
you've got to start young. Fred Astaire
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and
one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Henri Frederic Amiel
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful,
reverent that is to triumph over old age. Thomas B. Aldrich
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get
older. Anouk Aimee
For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for
the common birthday. John Glenn
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly,
and lie about your age. Lucille ball
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
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. Maurice Chevalier
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune. Irish Saying
Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Wilde
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Bernard M Baruch On his 85th birthday
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. Jean Paul Richter
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is
when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the
first time how young the policemen look. Sir Seymour Hicks
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise
with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within
it. Brigitte Bardot
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. Robert Orben
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first
was made. Robert Browning
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what
the hell happened. Cora Harvey Armstrong
Getting old ain't for sissies. Betty Davis
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve
with age. C.E.M. Joad
Let us respect gray hairs, especially our own. J. P. Sears
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
Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind, and count each
birthday with a grateful mind. Alexander Pope
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone
who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
There was a star danced, and under that was I born. William Shakespeare
The spiritual eyesight improves as the physical eyesight declines. Plato
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be
only about a hundred. Thomas Alva Edison
I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners,
old books, old wines. Oliver Goldsmith
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute
energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are
going strong at seventy. Dorothy Thompson
We grow too soon old and too late smart. Dutch proverb
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. Chinese proverb
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime
and too sleepy to worry at night. Author Unknown
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected
without trials. Chinese Proverb
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want
to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want
to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people
you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly
defeated age. Sofia Loren
Today is the yesterday you worried about tomorrow. Author Unknown
If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an
old building. Katherine Hepburn
Be kind to your kids, they'll choose your nursing home one day. Author Unknown
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