Five Quotes
4497 quotes by 3373 authors
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Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.
— Bridget Fonda
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There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.
— William Holden
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I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
— Nadine Gordimer
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A woman, till five-and-thirty, is only looked upon as a raw girl, and can possibly make no noise in the world till about forty.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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I never think about age. I believe your age is totally how you feel. I've seen women of thirty-five who are old and people of…
— Joan Collins
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I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous…
— Harrison Ford
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Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and…
— Salman Rushdie
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the…
— Ellen Glasgow
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery…
— Robertson Davies
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People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people…
— Louis C. K.
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At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
— Thomas Jefferson
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His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet…
— Fannie Lou Hamer
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar…
— Robert Benchley
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind,…
— Cheri Huber
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A five-word sentence that could change the world tomorrow is What would love do now?
— Neale Donald Walsch
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