“ At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 3.2K
“ And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know. ”
- Olga Korbut- Copy
- 1.8K
“ At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
- 484
“ If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ”
- James Thurber- Copy
- 1.4K
“ She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. ”
- Bob Hope- Copy
- 3K
“ When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
- 509
“ You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi. ”
- Denis Leary- Copy
- 526
“ During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs. ”
- Florence King- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. ”
- Dame Edith Sitwell- Copy
- 2.5K
“ At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
- 1.4K
“ People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. ”
- George Burns- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist. ”
- Friedrich Engels- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience. ”
- Maurice Chevalier- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. ”
- Mary Flannery O’Connor- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty. ”
- Imelda Marcos- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore. ”
- Olga Korbut- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty, and what's more, I never did. ”
- Fatty Arbuckle- Copy
- 1.6K
“ My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ”
- Henny Youngman- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I would rather make one percent of a hundred men's efforts than one hundred percent of my own. This way if ten get sick and ten get run over by a truck, I still have eighty percent of my income. ”
- J. Paul Getty- Copy
- 2.1K
“ He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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