Old Quotes
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.
Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.
Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.
Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.
Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.
Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!
We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.
When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.
We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.
There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.
This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.
People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.
"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines