Old Quotes

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.

Old age is the verdict of life.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

I got my first trumpet when I was six years old, from Al Hirt. My father was playing in Al Hirt's band at that time.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.