Eighty Quotes

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. (Jackie Mason)
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. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
In a dream you are never eighty. View quote
Anne Sexton
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. View quote
Doris Lessing
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. View quote
Frank Luntz
What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I don't think I'd have done comedy if I was born eighty years ago [...] I'd have been a lord. Shooting people that were on my land [...] With a wig, yeah. And some crisps. View quote
Noel Fielding
But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera. View quote
Franz von Papen
Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level. View quote
Norman Borlaug
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. View quote
Henny Youngman
However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications. (Matthew Arnold)
The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger. View quote
Tony Abbott
Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. View quote
Stephen Leacock
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. View quote
Billy Wilder
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of. View quote
Matsuo Bashō
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. His was the first dictatorship in the present period of technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical means like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man. View quote
Albert Speer
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. View quote
Henry Ford
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours. Which is ten thousand, eighty minutes. Which is six hundred thousand, for hundred seconds. View quote
Meg Cabot
Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time. View quote
Melina Marchetta
She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good. (Rick Riordan)
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. View quote
Billy Barty
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill. View quote
Chris LeDoux
Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal. View quote
Carol Roth
Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected. View quote
Philip Emeagwali