The Old Quotes

In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA

I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

New ideas often need old buildings.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

Young love is so ridiculous, as is middle-aged and old love. And it's also hilarious. When have you ever felt so vulnerable and wonderful and terrible at the same time?

I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.

America...Do not touch my TV, my DVD, my stereo, my dual-deck VCR. Do not touch my old school, my new school, my slow jams, my party jams, my happy rap, and you better not touch...My James Brown.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

keep moving. It's hard for old age to hit a moving target.

Old age is a woman's hell.

I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.

I’m a big lipstick girl- I’m old school that way.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

This bright new year is given me

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.

I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

Almost all great painters in old age arrive at the same kind of broad, simplified style, as if they wanted to summarise the whole of their experience in a few strokes and blobs of colour.

Growing old is something you do if you're lucky.