Old Quotes

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's something very front and center about being young.

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block...

I'm impressed with a 90 year old woman who's still out and about.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.

Old age ain't for sissies

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.

Do you think that I am an old man? I could prove to this congregation that I am young; for I could find more girls who would choose me for a husband than can carry any of the young men.

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

Why do old people drive with their mouths open?

There's something profoundly disturbing about watching an old guy eat a sandwich.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

Why would I worry about getting older - what's to moan about?

One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'

You know you're getting old when a four-letter word for something pleasurable two people can do in bed together is R-E-A-D.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

I'm old school. I'm locked into my own little circle. If you cross the line, you're going to get bit. They'll always know where I'm coming from and once we hit the floor, there's no doubt.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but nobody has read him.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man

What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

Always challenge the old ways.