The Old Quotes

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here!

Many people consider me an old friend.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

I am very true to the proud tradition of the old school wrestling that I was brought up on. I am very blessed to be able to live out my dreams, and I have a great respect for the business.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

...there is no old age of the soul.

Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

You know you're getting old when you buy a sexy sheer nightgown and don't know anyone who can see through it.

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

Tis well to be merry and wise, 'Tis well to be honest and true; It is best to be off with the old love, Before you are on with the new.

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself!

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

American audiences love period pieces. America doesn't have a lot of old things. It's a new country so I think we're a little bit fascinated by that.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

I've been listening to the old school hip-hop stuff and rock like The Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.