The Old Quotes

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

Utilizing a unique acoustic blend never heard previously, the Aaron O’Rourke Trio has made a fine debut recording that is sure to please old and new grass fans alike.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it, she's the equivalent of three fourteen-year-olds.'

Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show.

Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.

But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

I think you’re possessed.” “Old news.” “Huh. Anyone I know?” “My dad. It’s a family issue I’m working on.

Which is crueler, an old man's lost memories of a life lived, or a young man's lost memories of the life he meant to live?

opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I'm not quite as much of a curmudgeon being old. I'm not cantankerous. But otherwise, I'm about the same.

The most important thing for old guys is never start going down the stairs sideways.

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king.

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.

I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

My dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish.

I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

But in some ways, I'm like an old woman - lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.

Writers and filmmakers have this age-old relationship to the material.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

I don't want to die an old lady.