The Old Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

We have a great regard for old age when it is bottled.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.

If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

Old age spiritualizes people naturally

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

Old women can see through walls.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?