Old Quotes

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

It's the same old thing getting lost Day 'N' Nite young and lost in the pain.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

All diseases run into one, old age.

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

Old age is a shipwreck.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.

I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.

I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.

The purpose of a relationship is to decide what part of yourself you'd like to see 'show up', not what part of another you can capture and hold.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.