The Old Quotes

In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.

One day you wake up and you decide you want to be different. You want a different life. You are tired of your old life. This is the truth. You will a change.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old ones back because the fans love them.

It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

As I'm getting older, I'm getting funkier. So that's what I'm wearing. Funky shoes.

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.

Pretended to see nothing in the old woman's taunts. Very hard to imagine nothingness.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament.

They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

An old friend is a new house.

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

I'm left. Okay. And sometimes radically, and sometimes I even shock myself with the degree of radicalness in my own - that I'm allowing to come out in my old age.

In our old age my beloved companion said to me quietly one evening, "You have always given me wings to fly, and I have loved you for it.

Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.