The Old Quotes

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

The Quran is many different things, and we also have to see the Quran almost as a secondary source commenting on the Old Testament.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.

I'm a little old-fashioned.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it.

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

An old man in a house is a good sign.

He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my own.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.

I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.

Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it.

[Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world.

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

I looked at the Branson Mo. deal but it's all old people and their parents

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book.

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

It seems to me that references to bands like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin meant more to me a year ago and all those old things are totally losing importance.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he's lost it. The string came off!

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

You're a mean old man, Your Grace." "And that is the way it should be." Roial informed. "Mean young men are trivial, and kindly old men boring. Here, let me get us something to drink.

And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.