Old Quotes

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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.