Old Quotes
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When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.
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The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!
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A lie never lives to be old.
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You're never too old to take baby steps.
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The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.
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I have come too late into a world too old.
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When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
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By all means, then, let us have psalms and days of dedication anew to the old causes
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Modern art must strike out from the old. The new is not revealed to those whose eyes are fastened in worship upon the old…Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing.
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
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Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!
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I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an C man and that I cannot set the world afire.
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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.
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I don't want to redo what I've just done. I don't want to retread old ground.
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You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.
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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.
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You a Catholic, Harry?” O’Neill asked. “I was. Can’t see it any more.” “You know something?” O’Neill offered after a pause. “Religion is for punks and old folks. When you’re a punk you need it because you don’t know any better and it straightens you up. And when you’re old you need it for comfort before you check out. But in between it’s no good.
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No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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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.
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You are never too old to reinvent yourself.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
