The Old Quotes

The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by.

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

No matter how old you get, hug and kiss your mother whenever you greet her.

In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.

What does it profit a 78-year-old woman to sit around the pool in a bikini if she cannot feed herself?

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.