Old Quotes

Don't hustle old people.

There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.

My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an idea how I feel about you," he said. My old man. He always knew just what to say.

Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa

It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad - it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical.

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.

The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

You know you're getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

You won't now tell people you're in your 60′s Indeed, you'll have to pretend, no end That you're close to being 70 Let me be the first to agree, old friend

Some one has said of a fine and honorable old age, that it was the childhood of immortality.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

I was a late child from my parents, so I grew up surrounded by people a lot older than me. I think even when I was 21, I felt like I was a 70-year-old man.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end.

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down.

Be happy when you don't notice that you're getting old, it means you have had a great life so far.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!

Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

["When are you getting married" in Everybody Loves Somebody] is funny because it's put on by women and men. Society makes women feel like, oh, you're getting old.

I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.