The Old Quotes

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

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.

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

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

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

There is no fool like an old fool.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.

Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

He led quite a great life, ... He was an Old Testament figure railing against the establishment - a Jewish guy from New York who became a Buddhist, a poet, a musician.

You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

If you're going to get old, you might as well get as old as you can get.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Finding an old friend is like finding a lost treasure.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, a world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.