Old Quotes

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

When people tell you how young you look, they are telling you how old you are.

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.

But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

There seems to be more abiding interest in unearthing old memos abroad than there is here.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.