The Old Quotes

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.

My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

Man is born with his face turned away from God. When he truly repents, he is turned right round toward God; he leaves his old life.

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.

There's that old saying: Squeeze the juice out of life before life squeezes the juice out of you. I will try to squeeze the remaining juice out of life.

The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.

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.

The new media are not ways of relating to us the 'real' world; they are the real world and they reshape what remains of the old world at will.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

I am not Christ or a philanthropist, old lady, I am all the contrary of a Christ.

It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old

Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.

You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

If you had to summarize the Old Testament, the summary would be: stop doing this to yourselves.

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Today, where you come from seems less and less important, as globalization is the new order. I prefer the old world.

If I were an antiquarian, I would have eyes only for old stuff, but I am a historian. Therefore, I love life.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.