The Old Quotes

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

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams.

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.

After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

I'm an old-fashioned guy.

Old age hath stronger sense of right than youth.

Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.

Growing older doesnt bother me.

This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.

People don't die of old age, they die of diseases that accompany old age, and they are preventable.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then!

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines