Old Quotes

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

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.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

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

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

I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.

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

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

Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

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.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

No matter how old you become, I'll always hold your hand tenderly. just like how I held it on the day that you were born. I love you, son.

There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

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

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

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

I don't have a child, so Women for Women is like my child. But I always said I would step down after 20 years. I didn't want to be a 60-year-old woman holding on to something I created when I was 23.

I suppose I'm just an old soul.

Look at the bright side no matter how old you are, you are younger than you'll ever be again.

She is one of those ladies who is more beautiful at sixty than she could possibly have been at twenty. (how I hope someone says that about me someday)!

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

I'll sing outside your window. I'm as old fashioned as they come.

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.