Old Quotes

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's a mean old world, but its up to us to make it heaven, here and now.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

Read two old books for every new one.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.