Quotes About Old

Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines.

Life, sometimes so wearying is worth its weight in gold the experience of traveling lends a wisdom that is old.

Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.

I work Cold Cases. When we bring witnesses in, they want to believe this doesn't count: not really a murder investigation, not a proper one with guns and cuffs, nothing that'll slam through your life like a tornado. Something old and soft, instead, worn fuzzy round the edges.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

The book-lined room was redolent of beeswax and old leather books, spilt whiskey on ancient woolen carpets, and whiffs of woodsmoke from fires long gone cold.

It is always special to play against my old team.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

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

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.

I'm a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I'm really good at it.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

I detect more good than evil in humanity. Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, And men grow better as the world grows old.

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

He's like one of these old guys from a disgraced presidential administration, forced out by scandal, who devotes the rest of his life to finding people who will listen to him.

hot and pulsing on the edge of a dynastic rebellion, like the arteries of an old man about to have his first orgasm in years. He