Old Quotes

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Old age is not for sissies.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

Now and then when I get an idea for a picture, I think, how ordinary. Why paint that old rock? Why not go for a walk instead? But then I realise that to someone else it may not seem so ordinary.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

An old dog barks not in vain.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.

I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.