The Old Quotes

Aging is something! It always makes you remember yesterday!

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.

If you see an old man talking to himself, he might not be a fool or crazy. He might be sharing a conversation with the past, warmed by a memory he need not reveal.

Sit back and enjoy. And remember: Always be careful what you say around your kids.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

Time makes everything mean and shabby and wrinkled. The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful things die young, but that they grow old and mean.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.

Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.

The greatest importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls...lies in the discovery of biblical manuscripts dating back to only about 300 years after the close of the Old Testament canon.

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.”“Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Be so busy competing with your old self until you start to see no reason to ever compete with others.

The only competition that matters the most, is competing to become better than your best old self.

Don't allow your old self to distract you from a better version of you that you could become.

The only person that you should live your life competing against, is nobody else but your old self.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

Anyone can find the dirt on someone, but very few can wipe it from their own shoes.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

Dedicandote estos versos, una pulsera vieja, con tu nombre al reverso.I dedicate these verses, an old bracelet with your name on the back.

I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

When you suspect old age is catching up with you, live faster!

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.

Being happy is a requisite for longevity.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.

...one of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth.

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.

Do something very praiseworthy in your youth or in your middle age so that you can spend all your time talking about it in your old age!

Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.

we’re too old to be young.

How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

A new you can still emerge from the old you.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.

Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony:A voice, I will send. Hear me! The land All over, A voice I am sending! Hear me! I will live!

Anyone who takes the time to attentively listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.

I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.

Witches seek the sacred knowledge the rest of the world has already forgotten.

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

People live up to 75, the other is just a gift.

Old age is the new childhood.