The Old Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

Here's a song was never sung: Growing old is dying young.

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

We need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.

In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I'm too old-school to tweet.

Beautiful old people are works of art.

Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.