Eighty Quotes
Eighty Quote of the day
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.
The appetizer is just an excuse for an extra meal. Let's see, I will start with the eighty buffalo wings.
Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.
Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.
People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.
Talking about your troubles is no good. Eighty percent of your friends don't care and the rest are glad.
I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday.
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a hundred, Your life will be death to the very core.
Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one.
Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Wind is part of the British Open. It is an examination and it took me a long time to pass the examination. Eighty per cent of the fellows out there have not passed the test.
Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.
I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.
At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.
When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.
For the past eighty years I have started each day in the same manner... I go to the piano, and I play preludes and fugues of Bach... It is a sort of benediction on the house.
Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.
I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read
