A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
|
Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
|
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
|
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
|
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle
|
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island. In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
|
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.
|
Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
|
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
|
Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
|
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent
|
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
|
I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
|
D'Argo: Well, now I can speak only truth and that comes as good and bad news. John: Alright, give me the bad news first. D'Argo: The bad news is that you are married and you must endure as a statue for eighty cycles in a strange world. John: What's the good news? D'Argo: Chiana and I are having fantastic sex.
|
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
|
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
|
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.
|
... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President Wilson. She was eighty years old and her friends th...
|
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.
|
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
|
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
|
Eighty percent of success is showing up
|