The Old Quotes

The ego is like a tired old dog. We can never kill it, so put it out on the back porch, let it rest there, and step around it.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it.

No gains without pains.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!!

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which is death; the actual transition from one life to the next.

God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

Middle age is when you go to bed at night and hope you feel better in the morning. Old age is when you go to bed at night and hope you wake up in the morning.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.

The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.'

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.