The Old Quotes

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.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

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

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

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Beta decay was... like a dear old friend. There would always be a special place in my heart reserved especially for it.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

(Wine is) the nurse of old age.

There's no friends like the old friends.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

The New Age? Its just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

Let each new year find you a better person.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.