The Old Quotes

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

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.

You get old, you slow down.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Medicines are only fit for old people.

An old young man, will be a young old man.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's one savvy chick.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

You have to say no to the old ways before you can begin to find the new yes you need.

I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.

There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

I'm an old-school guy.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.

Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less.