Old Quotes

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

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.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

I did some research and tried to pull out some old, classic Van Halen that they had not played in 10 or 15 years. I think that was Sammy's mistake. I he didn't want to do the Dave stuff.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.