The Old Quotes

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

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

How I have walked... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new!

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'

New ideas must use old buildings

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

I think old age is in each one's head; so if you're happy doing what you love, you're going to be young.

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.