The Old Quotes

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

You have to embrace getting older.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.

You mean old books?" "Stories written before space travel but about space travel." "How could there have been stories about space travel before --" "The writers," Pris said, "made it up.

Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

The idea that there is only one way to be reconciled with God has its origins in the Old Testament.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.

Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke.

I am just an old-fashioned girl.

Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Being old is such a treat!

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street.

When the body is still healthy and diseaseless, When old age has not yet attacked it

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

I fell in love with the land and with the very old fashioned idea of leaving a physical legacy for my children. A stunning place, with a magnificent forest of trees, and a magnificent river.

That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.

Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."

No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.