Old Quotes
Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.
I'd prefer to die in Texas when I'm old. They say most good things end the same way they started, and that's where I entered the world, so that's how I'll leave it.
One Must Always Remember That Birth, Old Age, Disease And Death Comes At Any Moment In Regardless Of Whom We Are Or What We Have In Forms Of Material Possession.
He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.
I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!
You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness......Remeber when the boys were all electric?
When we are young, we want to be old and for things to change. When we are old, we want to be young and for things to go back to the way they were.
Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.
But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.
It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.
If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.
Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom.
I don't know. I don't really like old movies. The acting is so, 'Hey buddy, ol' pal. Let's go wear our hats and have a big misunderstanding
The TV shouted an old black-and-white film he didn't recognize, wheelchairs facing it like church pews.
Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom
You will always be special to someone. Unless you grow so old, everyone you knew went ahead
They rarely look at Baba -- the teenagers -- and then only with cold indifference, or even subtle disdain, as if my father should have known better than to allow old age and decay to happen to him.
We need only to close our eyes and we are back on the Third Line, walking up the lane, through the yard and entering the bright, warm kitchen. We are home again.
Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
An older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years) I'd have taken better care of myself.
The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
One of the delights known to age and beyond the grasp of youth is that of 'not going'!
Middle age: when you're sitting at home on Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
Old age is a time of humiliations the most disagreeable of which for me is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.
Dignity high station or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men in order to keep the younger at a distance who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.
When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.