Old Quotes

In youth, the absense of pleasure is pain, in old age, the absence of pain is pleasure.

New things are always better than old things.

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

Old guys can still do fun things.

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;- All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong, All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best!

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

I hated old people as a young kid who thought he knew anything about punk rock. I just thought old people sucked and I thought their opinions sucked.

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.

The mobile phone, the fax, emails. Call me old fashioned, but what's wrong with a chain of beacons?

There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

I like the old-school Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoons. I'm talking Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian!

There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.