Old Quotes

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

I got to talking to an old actor, and he had a bunch of stories about the Rough Riders.

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

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.