Old Quotes

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

When I was on the radio, I used to be able to go a lot farther than I can now. You don't really remember until you're on the radio again, sometimes in your old radio station and sitting with the guys you used to work with and you go, 'Oh yeah, I can't say these things anymore. I'm handcuffed.'

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

I don't want to die an old lady.

On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine. That is where our frontier lies.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre.