Old Quotes

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.

Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

Smell the cheese often so you know when it is getting old.

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.

I'm just a tough old woman.

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.