Old Quotes

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.

I started when I was six years old. My first coach was my granny, she was the best player in Slovakia.

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.

When a new book is published, read an old one.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I play chess badly and I've been beaten by my 10-year old son.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I'm just a tough old woman.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.