Old Quotes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

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

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

I love life on the road. I'm in a different city every night and it never gets old.

Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.

I don't want to slam the cute and fun movies out there, but it gets old.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.