Eighty Quotes

247 quotes by 219 authors

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am… — W. Somerset Maugham
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. — George Burns
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. — Jean Renoir
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. — Brian Tracy
Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world… — Leonardo Boff
The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there. — Isaac Asimov
Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which… — James G. Stavridis
Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in… — Rose George
I love it and it is a blessing to be able to have seventy-five to eighty episodes to develop a character and find your voice.… — David Zayas
Nineteen-eighty-two is a vintage of legendary proportions for all levels of the Bordeaux hierarchy. In short, it is a vintage which has produced the most… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundred and sixteen soy sauce packets. I have three hundred… — Rick Moranis
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the… — Mary Roach
We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards… — Nathaniel Smith
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary… — Louis A. Johnson
The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay. — George Grey
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… — John Millington Synge
Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New Orleans.… — Mitch Landrieu
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.… — Emily Bronte

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