The Old Quotes
That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.
Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'
My opportunities were still there nay they multiplied tenfold but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.
The same styles you used earlier may become monotonous over time. You want to remain relevant, so you got to change that style.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.
Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.
These trembling hands no longer have the confidence it exuded a few years ago. Hope has been extinguished and uncertainty is what remains for the rest of my days now.
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
No old road leads to new destinations! Change begins when one realizes that it is unwise to pour a new wine into an old wine skin. If you change your mind, you have to change your actions too!
Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world’s perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph
We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!
Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.
It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!
She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.
Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.
Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.
Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
Education should enable a student to think rationally, critically, and ultimately to understand, accept, and adapt with new and old ideas.