The Old Quotes

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.

Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Old friends are best.

When people tell you how young you look, they are also telling you how old you are.

It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain; you get a little out of breath, but the view is much better!

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

Play this game like the 8 year old you used to be, dreaming to play in the show! Heart, passion, and fire! Remember where you came from!

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.

Our lives are changing, this old world keeps turning. And I sit here and wonder, baby, what we're really learning.