The Old Quotes

Old friends are memories personified.

Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament orders the Jews to consume and enslave the peoples of the earth?

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.

If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security.

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears.

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.

I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.

I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends, friends of friends.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.