A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Helen Keller

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."
Erma Bombeck

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
Edward Kennedy

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
Edward Kennedy

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.
Edward Kennedy

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
Henry David Thoreau

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
Bill Gates

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Bill Gates