Old Quotes
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
A man doesn't grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.
I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.
Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.
It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.
Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.
By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.
I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.
A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had shot someone. Ah, those were the good old days.
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.
I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.
I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.
There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read.
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
