The Old Quotes
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.
For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.
I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.
Certainly Paul shares the view of the Old Testament prophets that God will one day flood the world with justice and joy - and that this has begun to be fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus.
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal. Except that it's not.
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation.
In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts
About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like
To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.
When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!
In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.
A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.
Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.
Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board
One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down her house cooking said 'like white on rice.
What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.
Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.
Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'
I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.
Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
