I would rather make one percent of a hundred men's efforts than one hundred percent of my own. This way if ten get sick and ten get run over by a truck, I still have eighty percent of my income.
There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes
Shaga: How would you like to die, little man?Tyrion: In my bed, at the age of eighty with a belly full of wine and a woman's mouth around my cock. - George R.R. Martin
I'm forty-two," he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years. - Monica Wood
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. - Jackie Mason
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. - Bernard M. Baruch
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. - Mark Twain
The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes. - Yuval Ne'eman
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. - Voltaire
Some people live more in twenty years than others do in eighty. It's not the time that matters, it's the person. - David Tennant 10th Doctor
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain
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. - Thomas A. Edison
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. - W. Somerset Maugham
The heart carries heavy loads when it is being trained to carry weighty blessings. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen
Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. - Henry Ford
Sometimes man seeks for wealth for eighty years, but cannot find, and then realises that life itself is the wealth itself! - Mehmet Murat ildan
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henny Youngman
The best thing about being eighty-eight is knowing I'm not going to die young.
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?! - Marisha Pessl