Old Quotes
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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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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
Robert Frost
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
Alexandra Potter
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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.
William Wendt
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You put an old Misfits record on, and it sounds like it came out yesterday.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
William Wordsworth
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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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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
George Bernard Shaw
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To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
George Eliot
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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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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka
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A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
Cate Blanchett
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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.
Martin Luther
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You are never too old to reinvent yourself.
Steve Harvey
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Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.
Wallace Stegner
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Always have old memories, and young hopes.
Arsene Houssaye
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Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.
Mena Suvari
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I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.
Catherine Malandrino
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I want to start dating the man that I’m gonna marry. I want to start having some fun with someone that I know I’m gonna be with. I don’t play any games. I’m too old for that. I’ve been there, I’ve been around the block.
LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
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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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TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle.
John C. McGinley
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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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An old fool is the worst of all fools.
Alice von Hildebrand
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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