The Old Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all.

It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was not very close to the military.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

They make money the old fashioned way... they earn it.

When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything else is transitory, the most time is spent in conversation.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

There are no “old” movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

Defend the weak, protect both young and old, never desert your friends. Give justice to all, be fearless in battle and always ready to defend the right." —The law of Badger Lords

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it's always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy.

My old man is a man of few words.

Old men ought to be explorers.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

At one point, the old school club retires and you're next up to bat, but if you stop before your time, you will see someone else live your dream.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.

Most people who become suddenly famous overnight will find that they lose practically eighty percent of their friends. Your old friends just can't stand it for some reason.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Alligator: The crocodile of America, superior in every detail to the crocodile of the effete monarchies of the Old World.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.