Old Quotes

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.

You gotta earn your keep in this world. When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it's disruptive to the old way.

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

There's a certain point at which you don't want to hear 'Happy Birthday'. You just want to pretend the day doesn't exist. Just remember what I'm telling you: 78 is not old.

We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

I believe that, young or old, we have as much to look forward to with confidence and hope as we have to look back on with pride.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.