Old Quotes

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

There's nothing more intoxicating than doing big, bold things.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

My kids are old enough now that they can watch that, but I like to do the family movies.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to go listen to Thelonius Monk, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of cash, too? That's a home run for me.

You get old, you slow down.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

My favorite pudding is good old English apple pie.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.