The Old Quotes

No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way.

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged.

My children, every time they ask me for something, I tell them to round their old stuff up.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.

Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi

I’m turning into an old woman. Might as well start knitting and bitching about soap operas, gas prices, and rude drivers.” – Sundown

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I’m sick of the whole ‘my gun will solve all’ mentality. (Wulf)

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

Hollywood is definitely now embracing a more natural approach to beauty. Staying "youthful-looking" is old news.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

I'm looking forward to being old, to be able to accept what I am and become self-sufficient. Mid-forties is a good age and it's not too far away.

The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

I'm getting older , so I'm quieting down a bit.

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.

I grew up with the television product being old Western serials like Roy Rogers, and John Wayne and Gary Cooper, and many others were my favorites when I was a young person going to films.

People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

The truth is I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.

You know, the New Testament is pretty old. I think they should call them the Old Testament and the Most Recent Testament.

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

I use a lot of old-fashioned expressions.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.