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Phyllis Diller Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Phyllis Diller

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
- Phyllis Diller

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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
- Phyllis Diller

Age Quotes and Sayings

Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

The youth gets together his materials
to build a bridge to the moon,
or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth,
and, at length, the middle-aged man
concludes to build a woodshed with them.
- Henry David Thoreau

One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain

All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort,
should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,
and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
- Joseph Addison

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead

Life is to be taken lightly
by those who wish to be happy
and by those who wish to age gracefully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Habits age men before their time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

At twenty years of age the will reigns;
at thirty, the wit;
and at forty, the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood
between sincere men of all denominations.
- Helen Keller

Reading, after a certain age,
diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little
falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- Albert Einstein

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller

In every country and every age,
the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems,
in my opinion, to characterize our age.
- Albert Einstein

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
He must be a great original interpreter
of his time, his day, his age.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced,
and today we think this more than ever, and are just as wrong
as all previous ages that thought so.
How often have we not seen the truth condemned!
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
- Carl Jung

Age does not protect you from love.
But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination
to world war in the age of mass extermination.
- John F. Kennedy

Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
- William Shakespeare

Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner

Probably the happiest period in life
most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are cooled,
and the infirmities of age not yet begun;
as we see that the shadows,
which are at morning and evening so large,
almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the greatest titles we can have is "old friend."
We never appreciate how important old friends are until we are older.
The problem is we need to start our old friendships when we are young.
We then have to nurture and grow those friendships over our middle age
when a busy life and changing geographies
can cause us to neglect those friends.
Today is the day to invest in those people
we hope will call us "old friend" in the years to come.
- Grant Fairley

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason
if we dig deep in our history and remember
that we are not descended from fearful men,
not from men who feared to write, to speak,
to associate and to defend causes
which were for the moment unpopular.
- Edward R. Murrow

Formula Quotes and Sayings

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp

Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing

Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James

Achieving Quotes and Sayings

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

True courage is taking another small step each day
toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson

This moment! - this here-now - is forgotten
when you start thinking in terms of achieving something.
When the achieving mind arises,
you lose contact with the paradise you are in.
- Osho

We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks
for everything that happens to you,
knowing that every step forward is a step toward
achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy

Not Quotes and Sayings

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

"It's not that important,
don't worry about it" is the answer,
now what was the question?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

Live life on the edge, not with an edge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Offense comes not from the mouth, but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness is not something ready made.
It comes from your own actions.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie