Old Quotes

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

With the Internet, kids today learn things quicker than we do and they have everything there is to see, so you have to do more than just remake some old '70s film.

Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'

There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.