Old Quotes
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
Oscar Wilde
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
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It was a very traditional 19th-century house; very old and half the size
Claire Williams
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The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
Ezra Klein
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I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.
Simone de Beauvoir
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One day I'll be old, dead, forgotten. And at this very moment, while I'm sitting here thinking these things, a man in a dingy hotel room is thinking, "I will always be here."
Simone de Beauvoir
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It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.
Socrates
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The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.
John Prine
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The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.
Sonny Liston
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There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children.
Cesare Pavese
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This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
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To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
George Eliot
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Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.
Alice Neel
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I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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You're never too old to take baby steps.
Capital Steez
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A lie never lives to be old.
Sophocles
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Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
Wilkie Collins
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I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me.
Sara Paxton
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I've dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.
Ariana Grande
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I was a bouncer when I was in DePaul in Chicago at the theater school. I threw drunks out of bars - unless I had a play running that weekend. But I only had two actual fights. Some were like out of old Westerns.
W. Earl Brown
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By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes
Charles Reznikoff
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
Catherynne M. Valente
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There is no fashion for the old.
Coco Chanel