Old Quotes

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child.

Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

Old age likes indecency. It's a sign of life.

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

I don't think it's "true" to sit and play old school heavy metal just so that you can send it to Fenriz or get a pat on the back from the guys you admire and hang out with.

A lot of my old stuff is pretty simple. The new stuff is slightly more in-depth.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

We cannot avoid growing old; but we can avoid growing cold.

I love the finished product, but I find working in the studio a chore - I use an old-fashioned setup, so the recording process can be frustrating.

I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.

Faith, courage, optimism, looking forward, bring us new life and more life. Futility, frustration, living in the past are not only characteristic of 'old age'; they contribute to it.

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially with which to meet frustration.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

There are some old photographs from where if you take anything out, even a chicken or a little bird, the magic will disappear.

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

Life must be understood before getting old, most preferably, in youth!

In old age, mirror is not a friend!

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.