Old Quotes

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away.

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.

When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it.

Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

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

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

A man growing old becomes a child again.