Old Quotes

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

When I was maybe like, under 10 years old, I was kind of like a maniac.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

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.

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.