What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

I am a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Chuck Palahniuk

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

Columba Bush

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

Jodi Picoult

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Karl Marx

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

Nick Carter

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

George Alexiou

Perhaps I'd been a slow developer, but I was well into my forties before I realized that you don't have to comply with a request just because it's reasonable or reasonably put. Age is the great dis-obliger. You can be yourself and say no.

Ian Mcewan

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid