Old Quotes

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.

There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

There was an Old Man of Columbia, Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer; But they brought it quite hot, in a small copper pot, Which disgusted that Man of Columbia.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

One thing is sure, there are just two respectable ways to die. One is of old age, and the other is by accident.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

library is a beautiful old thing

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.

I definitely love music that's coming out now, there's some really exciting fresh artists coming through which is really cool. I guess it's from old and new, where my influences are based.

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.

That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.

Remember that the old lady who's taking forever in line is someone's grandma

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s.

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out.

Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.

Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature is her enemy. Look at what it does to her.

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

The truly creative individual stands ready to abandon old habits and to acknowledge that life, particularly his own unique life, is rich with possibilities.

The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children

It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.