Old Quotes

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.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

I grew up listening to old soul.

The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.