Old Quotes

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

And this network of veins acts in man as in oranges, in which the peel becomes thicker and the pulp diminishes the more they become old. And if you say that as the blood becomes thicker it ceases to flow through the veins, this is not true, for the blood in the veins does not thicken because it continually dies and is renewed.

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

We're like bad architecture and old whores. Eventually you become respectable.

This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

It's always weird when things are targeted for young people, yet they're driven by people that are like 40 years too old. It can't be like this 70-year-old Jewish man that doesn't leave his desk all day, telling me what the clubs want to hear.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

I'm just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck.

I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

I don't expect to make old bones, and what's more I don't really care.

I was always keen to do a solo album. I just wanted it to be the right time and the right place so that I could actually work properly on the songs that I wanted to do before I got too old.

I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don't know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I'm a bit old.