Old Quotes

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

I like gettin' old.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

Well, now I'm an old photographer and I still don't sell.

When the devil grows old he turns hermit.

In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.