Life & Aging Sayings

289 sayings found from 289 authors

He had maad ful many a mariage Of yonge wommen at his owne cost.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

— Jonathan Swift c. 18th century
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I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

— Alexander Pushkin c. 1820-1837
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The petrifactions of a plodding brain.

— Lord Byron 1809
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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley 1819 (published posthumously in 1840)
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I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.

— Tupac Shakur c. 1990s
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Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato.

— Notorious B.I.G. c. 1990s
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Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

— Kanye West 2010
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I showed her where she would find gold, but the gold she found is all hers.

— Auguste Rodin Not specified (during their relationship, c. 1880s-1890s)
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It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

— Henri Matisse Not specified
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I always thought I'd be dead by 30, then dead by 40 and on and on. Now I'm 55 so I didn't even die at 50.

— Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page) 2010
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

— Reed Hastings N/A (often cited, likely pre-2010s)
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Sigh… why delete a wallet instead of moving it aside and keeping the old copy just in case? You should never delete a wallet.

— Satoshi Nakamoto 2010 (approximate)
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When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

— Pele Undated, but quoted in 2020.
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One day, in the morning, having put on his undergarment and taken his outer robe and bowl, the Blessed One entered Sāvatthī for alms.

— Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) c. 5th century BCE
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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.

— Confucius c. 5th century BCE
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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

— Saint Paul c. 60-62 CE
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Do not seek revenge. Instead, live a life so good that your enemies get really, really jealous. Also, maybe trip them occasionally.

— Zoroaster Modern
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Live a life of honesty and integrity. And try not to spill your tea on yourself.

— Guru Nanak Modern
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The whole life of a Christian should be a perpetual exercise of repentance.

— John Calvin 1536
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