The Old Quotes

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope.

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past? And with its crutch, its old age, and its wisdom, it whispers no this will be the last.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

Bill O'Reilly, Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity are the Mount Rushmore of keeping old people angry.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

So long as you are learning, you are not growing old.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.

We create a product nobody needs but people want. You spend more for what you really want; some boring things you need: an ugly old car can wait, but if you have a new fashion item it cannot wait.

You never see an old man eating a Twix

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good old friend.

All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to read this or not to read that.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

Antonio- "Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma." Peter- "Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.

In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everything in the past is great and everything modern is terrible. But I do think cities should be a mix of old things and new things.

If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

In this country, some people start being miserable about growing old while they are still young.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds.

I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days.

I may be old fashioned, but I am right.