Old Quotes
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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
Charlie Jane Anders -
Respect the old and cherish the young. Even insects, grass and trees you must not hurt.
Ge Hong
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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 -
I used to be so young, how did I get so old?
Dan Mangan -
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige -
What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.
Sara Gruen -
You know, I'm an old man, and there's always parts for old bald guys.
Michael Hogan -
Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.
Andre Tchelistcheff
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When ya gotta go Now we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder God. We are here to go.
Brion Gysin -
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
Berthold Auerbach -
When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
Charlie Jane Anders -
I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing.
Jonathan Tropper -
When all else fails, I am comforted by the fact that when I am ill or old, I will never be on my own. After all, you'd have to be a pretty terrible father if not one of your seven daughters was willing to take care of you at the end.
Jonathan Franklin -
It was one of the most pernicious fallacies, common the world over: old ways are best. But old ways can outlast their usefulness. Old ways can live on pointlessly in worlds that have no room for them.
Nicola Griffith
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To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
George Eliot -
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
Steven Brust -
Sometimes we need to let go of the old to make room for the new.
Casey Neistat -
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
Judy Horacek -
A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.
Mitch Leigh
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Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.
Anne Cameron -
Old things have strange hungers.
Catherynne M. Valente -
History is as Old as My Grandfather.
Adolf Hitler -
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.
Kazuya Minekura