Quotes About Old

Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

The Grand Old Duke of York He had ten thousand men. His case comes up next week.

It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Shiny like new zinc holding up a roof or a fence right beside old zinc, the material itself a living history of when last the politician did the ghetto a favor.

I was a fool. I thought you learned the old ways by forgetting the new.

This old bastard was becoming my favorite person in Kongor who was not a buffalo.

Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.

Just as appearances of old happened for the direction of those for whom they happened, as also the Lord appeared to the two disciples going to Emmaus, so also Scripture speaks and appears in the manner in which we are disposed.

It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Other than her daughter, there was no woman more beautiful than the Moon. And besides Old Man Fire, there was no one on earth as old as she. But the Moon was the first of those kind of women for whom age is more a sculptor, carving the young girl's original smoothness into a more complex and deeper beauty.

Hello, madness, my old friend. *

That is partly because of the new ways of looking at the old evidence, and the different questions we choose to put to it. It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors. We are not. But we come to Roman history with different priorities

Roman writers tended to take it for granted that the origins of the senate went back to Romulus, as a council of 'old men' (senes)

NEVER TRUST UR OLD FRIENDS THEY ALWAYS TURN ON YOU ALWAYS TRUST UR NEW ONES THERE GUNNA BE THERE 4 U

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

Love is a durable fire in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead from itself never turning.

In the old days, nature was our people's only school and they needed no other.

But all I heard was a different kind of knowing, one that even Morrighan couldn't hear, a knowing that felt as sure and old as the earth itself. It whispered deep within my gut, I am yours, Morrighan, forever yours … and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.