In this post, you will find great Old Quotes from famous people, such as Ian Ziering, Francis Bacon, Alcaeus, Dwayne Johnson, Les Brown. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive – make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.
Old age is no place for sissies.
I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
There’s an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain’t looking.
I’m like an old turtle these days. I don’t run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I’ll be where I’m supposed to be.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
One of the things you learn in football is that you’re only as good as your last outing. I don’t like to reflect on what we’ve done in the past. I’m not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I’d disappoint you. When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn’t become complacency. If you say, ‘We’re not going to change; we didn’t do it that way before,’ then you’ve become too old.
The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I’m collecting.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one’s teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dad used to reminisce about the good old days when Everton won the old first division championship and the FA Cup back in the 1970s and 80s but they weren’t quite so good when I started supporting them.
But the one thing I’ll always know is that people don’t know what they want until they get it. They didn’t know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.
Congress is too old. They don’t have a stake in the game.
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo – and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Old age is no place for sissies.
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.
I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.
I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
I still DJ the same way, but I’m not a scratch-scratch-scratch battle DJ. No, I’ll rock the house. I’m old school.
To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!’
No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
There’s no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
I’m a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I’d just get worried.
I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president.
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there’s some sort of connection to those qualities – to being strong, to being tough, to being a warrior.
If you look back at old Captain America comic strips, he used to fight Nazis, you know? The American ideal is standing up and saying, ‘No, that is not the status quo, and we will not accept that.’
In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible… When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I’ve done it.
The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.
The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gulf of the ocean, and, alternately narrowed by islands or projections of the land and expanding to considerable breadth, at once separates and connects the three divisions of the Old World.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation‘s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
I’m a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there’s nothing in my life that I’m prouder of.
Too pop for punk, too ‘old school’ for the New Wave, Mumps were a ’70s era New York rock band, out of time.
Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don’t get wise, but you don’t get wise unless you age.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I have no idea about the state of rap. I don’t pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
My friends call my style ‘old man chic.’ I wear loafers and stylish sweatpants. I love to stay comfortable, so I definitely funk it up, but I’m always comfortable. I wear lots of hats and feathers, and I kind of have a little obsession with Native American jewelry.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, ‘You get what you give.’ The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
I’ve loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother’s a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
It’s paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation‘ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
I’m like old shoes. I’ve never been hip. I think the reason I’m still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
‘Spring Day’ – I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.
Bubbles are always new; you just can’t find an old bubble.
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it’s important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it’s great fun growing old.
I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Whether I’m a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn’t change, whether I’m with adults or with my friends.
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.
And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
I like to think of myself as a modern defender rather than old school.
I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don’t look back on the good old days.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
I want the same thing I’ve wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
The good old days are now.
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
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.
Rejection and I are old friends.
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.
Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.
A young man who isn’t a socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn’t got a head.
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
Our freedom, our prosperity and our security depend on a proper respect for the fortune of our neighbours, allies and old friends.
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don’t believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it’s from another century, it’s not for today.
Guys are idiots, till they’re what, 40 years old.
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen.
I don’t remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
If you want to grow old as a pilot, you’ve got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They’re like the people who become successful and then don’t want to be reminded of the old neighborhood.
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
I love songs but am inhibited to have my characters burst out to express themselves through songs. I use the route of using old songs at the right places.
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
I’ll die a crazy old man!
I’m much too young to feel this damn old.
A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.
My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.
I grew up in a time when women didn’t really do comedy. You had to be homely, overweight, an old maid, all that. You had to play a stereotype, because very attractive women were not supposed to be funny – because it’s powerful; it’s a threat.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune.
My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She’d swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
I am not old but mellow like good wine.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die.
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’
I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.
I want to remind the new generation about the power of old school romance.
I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.
I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.
Life is sweet, but sometimes old people just don’t get it.
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
I don’t have to wait to realize the good old days.
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
We should all start to live before we get too old.
No lie ever reaches old age.
Old age is a shipwreck.
I’m not a Twitterer, I’m not a twerker, I’m not a Facebooker, I’m not nothing. I’m old school.
I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
Of course it’s the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!
A lie never lives to be old.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
If you’re a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
Life in Somalia before the civil war was beautiful. When the war happened, I was 8 years old and at that stage of understanding the world in a different way.
Life is one long decay, no? There’s a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.
All diseases run into one, old age.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
I feel like my old self on the ice.
I’ve been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I’ve found you’ve got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
At three years of age, the child has already laid the foundations of the human personality and needs the special help of education in the school. The acquisitions he has made are such that we can say the child who enters school at three is an old man.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.
I don’t think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I’d like to be considered a playful person to everyone.
Twenty-three is old. It’s almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
Nostalgia is one thing. It’s great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
It’s time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of a really old country.
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.
It’s a long old road, but I know I’m gonna find the end.
Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.
I’m a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
I’ve got no problem with anybody’s religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that’s just wrong.
I love mysteries – just in an old school way.
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
When I said, ‘I’m only 19, but my mind is old’ – at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.
SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company‘s lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it a a hundred times, I’m forty-four years old.
One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell’s unknown and untranslated dissertation, ‘Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,’ buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago’s old Harper Library.
Don’t accept the old order. Get rid of it.
My little brother is four years old and he listens to all my music. I don’t know how he finds it, but he knows how to use an iPad and he’s always online. So one day my mum said: ‘You know what, you have to make something for your little brother,’ and that’s how I made ‘Lean & Bop.’
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
In youth, the days are short and the years are long. In old age, the years are short and days long.
It’s really hard coming of age in today’s society, where society wants you to make the decision of what you want to do with your life by the time you’re 16 years old. Most kids don’t know what they want to do. How could they? They haven’t lived in the real world yet.
When you’re eight years old nothing is your business.
I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
There are certain sounds that have a loaded past. Like the sound of a harp, if you go back to old movies, represents a dream sequence; it transports you there.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
Carry a big basket. In other words, be open to new ideas, different partners, and new practices, and have a willingness to dump out the old and irrelevant to make room for new approaches.
To me, growing old is great. It’s the very best thing – considering the alternative.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.
Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we’d like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again – as I always am when I write.
Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Liberal democracy – as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today’s left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
You know that old saying, ‘A way to a man’s heart is through his stomach‘ – that’s me.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
I learned a woman is never an old woman.
Old friends die on you, and they’re irreplaceable. You become dependent.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
It does feel really good when you play a new song, and it’s the loudest singalong of the night. It means just as much when we’re playing the old songs, and people are singing along to those, too.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don’t get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.
You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.
The good old days are now.
We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.
Youth doesn’t reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man’s heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.
When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.
I’m a perfect example of the grumpy, old man. I’m really good at it.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.
I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I’ll still be very proud that I was part of the ‘Harry Potter‘ films.
My pops put me on to Jay-Z and Kanye, and my discoveries would be like Future and Kendrick Lamar. I turned my pops on to Kendrick, Young Thug. I feel my mom made me play the Isley Brothers and real, real old music.
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
It’s exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
I’m not trying to be new school and I’m not old school – I’m classic. There’s a lot of new cars and there’s a lot of old cars, but I’m just classic in doing what I do.
When I am an old man, I will tell my grandchildren bedtime stories about when I won the Champions League, hopefully when I won the World Cup, but most of all, I will tell them that their grandfather used to play with Lionel Messi.
No man is ever old enough to know better.
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
In every age ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
I feel pretty good. My body actually looks like an old banana, but it’s fine.
Old age is a woman’s hell.
Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.
I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
I do sometimes go back to my old songs. Some I feel very proud of. They make me wonder, ‘How did I do this?’
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult’s perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story – that part of a young person‘s life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it’s like to be twelve years old.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
I don’t even like old cars. I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
Two old Bachelors were living in one house; One caught a Muffin, the other caught a Mouse.
I’m not going to be rockin’ n’ rollin’ when I’m 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you’re 50.
I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that’s a completely different thing. I’ve written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.
Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.
I didn’t get old on purpose, it just happened. If you’re lucky, it could happen to you.
I hope I die before I get old.
You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
