Years Quotes

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. (Plautus)
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. View quote
Yves Saint-Laurent
You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you. View quote
Dale Carnegie
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. View quote
Muhammad Ali
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. View quote
Uma Thurman
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. View quote
Robert Frost
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. View quote
Robert Benchley
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. (Richard Bach)
What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? View quote
Freddie Mercury
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. View quote
Gore Vidal
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. View quote
Bernard Baruch
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. View quote
Zora Neale Hurston
A minute's success pays the failure of years. View quote
Robert Browning
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. View quote
Paul Robeson
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining? View quote
George Wallace
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. (Robert Anton Wilson)
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. View quote
Samuel Beckett
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. View quote
Rosa Parks
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