Old Quotes
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
Isaac Newton
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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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I have come too late into a world too old.
Alfred de Musset
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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John Brunner
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
Wallace Stegner
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There is no fashion for the old.
Coco Chanel
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Old age is the verdict of life.
Amelia Barr
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
Roy H. Williams
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Growing up isn't simply getting old... Growing up is when you don't believe anymore.
Walt Disney
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Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I love old things. Modern things are so cold. I need things that have lived.”
Barbara Hulanicki
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I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
Berthold Auerbach
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Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times.
John Anthony Genzale
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My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the old building a few years back, the stonework just knocked me out. It is a great melding of the Old Toronto and the new.
Andy Barrie
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The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
Judy Horacek
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The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.
Arnold Ross
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
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Most people put their childhood away as if it was an old hat. They forget it as if it was a phone number that does not apply anymore. They think about their life as if it was a salami which they are eating slice by slice and then they become grown-ups, but what are they now? Only those who grow up and still remain children are real human beings.
Erich Kastner
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
Wilfred Owen
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We’ve always been a really good Rock band live and we still have that. I don’t know how much longer we’re going to have it because we’re all getting a little bit old.
John Dolmayan System Of A Down
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It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.
Monica Seles
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There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.
Steve Jobs
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When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
Ruth Gordon