The Old Quotes

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

Observation is an old man's memory.

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

Very hard to get an audience. So if you're going to fill the theatre, you can't just rely on old stuff.

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.

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

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.

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.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

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

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

I'm driving my old car until I'm on a first name basis with the low tow truck drivers!

Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.

All the men of the Old Testament were polygamists, and Christ and Paul, the central figures of the New Testament, were celibates, and condemned marriage by both precept and example.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

Never let an old person live in your body.

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

How can my old photographs fail to create in me a feeling of emptiness and sorrow? They make me acutely aware that this second deprivation will be final this time.

Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.