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"When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his." »George D. Prentice
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"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way." »Jane Austen
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"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'" »Stephen William Hawking
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"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young." »Luella F. Phean
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"I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life." »Pable Casals
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"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
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"Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world." »Jane Harrison
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"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world." »Eric Hoffer
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"young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young." »Caesar Augustus
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." »Henry Ford
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." »Moshe Arens
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"To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady." »Wilson Mizner
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"A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally." »Lillian Day
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"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." »Margaret Hilda Thatcher
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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." »William Shakespeare
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"The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings." »Dan Cook
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"A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman." »American Proverb
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"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat." »P. J. O'Rourke
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"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman." »Herbert Spencer
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"It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate." »George McGovern
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"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband." »Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson
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"The First lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband." »Lady Bird Johnson
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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." »Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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"The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers." »William Shakespeare
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"lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers." »William Shakespeare
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"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." »Hanna Holborn Gray
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"Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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