Old Quotes

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

At 40 years old you simply know what life is about.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

I don't think I would ever have been able to be an actress had I not started at nine years old. I would have been the last person to stand up and say, 'I'd like to star in the play.'

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

Old age is no place for sissies.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

I don't use old music.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.