The Old Quotes

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

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

There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which distressed all the people of Brussels.

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.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Old age is second childhood.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

Death laughs when old women frolic.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person.

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions.

You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

Freedom, in childhood, may be the right to be totally self-centered. … But freedom in old age is the ability to be the best of the self I have developed during all those years.

I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.

There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.

I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions.