The Old Quotes

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

Growing old is not growing up.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

Old age transfigures or fossilizes.

My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important.

Be kind to an old man.

Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.

I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.

I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

Those old habits don't have to be erased, they just become replaced by a new habit that is more in vibrational harmony with who you are and what you want.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

It's fine to have social media that connects us with old friends, but we need tools that help us discover new people as well.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

My big fish must be somewhere.

while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.