Quotes About Old

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

For a while, it was something to try to push at people, playing old murder ballads and being upset about everything I was seeing around me. But now I feel a lot more at peace with it.

If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.

If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Envy and malice are indefatigable. Where they have not invention enough to frame new slanders, or the slanders newly framed are found totally inadequate to their purpose, they will call in the feeble aid of old calumnies

The harlot's cry from street to streetShall weave old England's winding sheet.

I pray—for fashion's word is outAnd prayer comes round again—That I may seem, though I die old,A foolish, passionate man.