The Old Quotes

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

I love Emmylou Harris's version of my song, 'Sweet Old World.' Her intonation is great.

I must be getting old ... People are beginning to tell me I look so young. They never tell you that when you are young.

I'm afraid our old world has come to an end, Rilla. We've got to face the fact. (Walter)

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

I like old people when they have aged well.

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.

Basically, when I'm writing something, I think about what is the subject of the piece. The subject of the piece is our fear of getting old, which is a variation on our fear of dying.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.

I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

The challenges we've had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren't the vibration of love.

I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.

He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

So you see, old age is really not so bad. May you come to know the condition!

An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Little by little old age renders the body less powerful.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

A dissolute and intemperate youth hands down the body to old age in a worn-out state.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

By the time something reaches the cover of Time magazine, it's old news anyway.

My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.

I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.

The Old Testament does, in fact, seem to make a distinction between the life of a child and the life of a fetus.

Never complain about growing old... Some never have the privilege.

I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.

It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!