Quotes of Eighty - somelinesforyou

“ Sexual intercourse beganin nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)between the end of the Chatterley banand the Beatles' first LP. ”

- Philip Larkin

“ 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

“ I'll never make the mistake of turning seventy again. ”

- Casey Stengel

“ 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

“ Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be. ”

- Gerald Barzan

“ 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

“ If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ”

- James Thurber

“ She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. ”

- Bob Hope

“ When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ 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.

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. ”

- George Burns

“ 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

“ 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

“ I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. ”

- Mary Flannery O’Connor

“ What I wouldn't give to be seventy again! ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty. ”

- Imelda Marcos

“ 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

“ And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. ”

- Bible

“ The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five. ”

- Bible

“ The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three. ”

- Bible

“ The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two. ”

- Bible

“ I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty, and what's more, I never did. ”

- Fatty Arbuckle

“ My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. ”

- Henny Youngman

“ 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

“ 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
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