The Old Quotes

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over.

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

Read two old books for every new one.

A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

I am a little old fashioned. I believe that in a relationship a man and a woman are never equal.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.

Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.