Quotes About Old

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

As a customer's man, his best brokerage work was securing the old age of his clients: time for them to do what they wished.

The counsel on public relations, after examination of the sources of established beliefs, must either discredit the old authorities or create new authorities by making articulate a mass opinion against the old belief or in favor of the new.

There was an Old Person of Blythe, Who cut up his meat with a scythe, When they said, 'Well! I never!' - he cried, 'Scythes for ever!' That lively Old Person of Blythe.

Which distressed that Old Man of Jamaica. nonsense

There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave

Dance is a tyranny of the old over the young, the ugly over the beautiful, those who no longer can over those who can.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

La nueva carne viva copiaba en broma a la vieja, éramos una cadena de sombras que desde siempre se representaba con la misma carga de amor, odio, deseos y violencia.

It wasn't my mother's laugh, the obscene laughter of a woman who knows. In Nella there was something chaste and yet vulgar, it was the laugh of an aging virgin that asailed me and pushed me to laugh, too, but in a forced way. [...] I saw myself growing old, with that laugh of malicious innocence in my breast. I thought: I'll end up laughing like that, too.

Ernest's mistake is to succeed by prudently respecting the rules of an old, well-known game; Gertrude's virtue is to succeed by sticking to the old, well-known game but in order to disrupt it and bend it to her purposes.

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.

I like some of the old spaghetti westerns because the Navajo extras they hired spent the entire time talking smack about the actors in the Diné language. With proper translation, it's incredibly entertaining.

A true leader teaches the benefit of understanding and making new good rules; A pretender preaches the good profit of knowing and breaking old rules.

Remake of movies is like serving old cake only with a beautiful wrap, and so obviously it can never taste good to any sensible person.

Like him, Uncle had eccentric tastes and liked old things. The difference, Silas was beginning to see, was that Uncle saw such objects as extensions of himself, of his body, essential, required, uniquely his. This thought made Silas uneasy.

My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.

I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.