Old Quotes

In 1974, I first met Carl. I was 25 years old. I am 51 now.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

But time growing old teaches all things.

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.

I'm 37 years old and don't have a steady paycheck.

People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Few people know how to be old.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.