Old Quotes

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.

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Old men need applause too.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.