The Old Quotes

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

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is a superior or a subject, an old man or a young one, a scholar or a dunce.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel

I met this girl when I was ten years old, And what I loved most she had so much soul. She was old school, when I was just a shorty Never knew throughout my life she would be there for me.

Say what you want about aging, it's still the only way to have old friends.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

I find I'm an old soul.

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy.

If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancers, and cancer is very curable if you catch it early.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

Cancer got me over unimportant fears, like getting old.

If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

I'm old school. I'm not the fastest guy or the quickest guy.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.