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Quotes About Old

He's like an old clock the won't tell time but won't stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
~ Ken Kesey
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
~ Quentin Bryce
What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
~ William Shakespeare
In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts.
~ John Chisum
I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.
~ William Shakespeare
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved.
~ William Shakespeare
These tedious old fools!
~ William Shakespeare
I am a very foolish fond old man,Fourscore and upward, not an hour more or less;And, to deal plainly,I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
~ William Shakespeare
Where's my serpent of old Nile?
~ William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
~ William Shakespeare
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.
~ William Shakespeare
An old man, broken with the storms of state,Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;Give him a little earth for charity.
~ William Shakespeare
Back and side go bare, go bare,Both foot and hand go cold;But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,Whether it be new or old.
~ William Stevenson
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
~ William Temple
I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!
~ William Temple
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
~ William Wordsworth
Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.
~ William Wordsworth
the claims of incredible numbers of wasicu, an old tale raised once more.
~ Win Blevins
Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.
~ Winston Churchill
God's righteousness has nothing to do with the law. We can never obtain God's righteousness by going to the law. As far as God's righteousness is concerned, the law is over. The law was the old dispensation. Now without law, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested through faith of Jesus Christ.
~ Witness Lee
I saved my soul, replied my father For this, firstly, you should have one, old man
~ Yasmina Khadra
Their deaths didn't seem to apply to us, maybe because their deaths, like their lives, were exercises in excess. In some ways they were simply living out the music. "I'm wasted," sang the Who. "I hope I die before I get old." And "Why don't you all just f-f-f-f-fade away.
~ David Sheff
Up and down went the ends of the old man's moustache
~ David Walliams
Zoey was disappointed that the van didn't explode into a fireball like in old action movies, but that was one of the downsides of electric car technology.
~ David Wong