Quotes on Old

Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

Author: William Aitken

I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished.

Author: Jean Alesi

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.

Author: GG Allin

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Author: Mose Allison

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

Author: Stephen Ambrose

Well, in the sense that we do not tour or record together anymore - then I suppose not. But if our old recordings get heard more we shall be delighted.

Author: Peter Asher

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

Author: Kevin Bacon

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Author: Abdullah Badawi

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make personal appearances.

Author: Joseph Barbera

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

Author: Carl Barks

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Author: Natalie Barney

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Author: Bernard Baruch

Obviously, I did a couple of things right on the old casting couch.

Author: Jason Bateman

Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Author: Alison Bechdel

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.

Author: Josh Billings

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Author: Josh Billings

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Author: Rudolf Bing

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

Author: Julie Bishop

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Author: Ritchie Blackmore

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

Author: William Blake

We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

Author: Wolf Blitzer

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

Author: Eric Bogosian

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Author: Erma Bombeck

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

Author: Lizzie Borden

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.

Author: Richard Branson

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.

Author: Terry Brennan

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Author: Robert Bresson

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

Author: Garth Brooks

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Author: Dee Brown

You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.

Author: Merry Browne

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Author: Robert Browning

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Author: Robert Browning

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.

Author: Martin Buber

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Author: Jeff Buckley

To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.

Author: Bill Budge

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Author: T-Bone Burnett

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

Author: George Burns

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

Author: Dick Butkus

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Author: Samuel Butler

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Author: Lord Byron

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

Author: Charles Calverley

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

Author: Max Cannon

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Author: Steve Carlton

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead.

Author: Jon Carroll

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.

Author: Dana Carvey

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

Author: Joshua Chamberlain

Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.

Author: Chubby Checker

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.

Author: Dominic Chianese

I'm too old to adapt to somebody else's ways.

Author: Claudia Christian

I've been doing theatre since I was 5 years old.

Author: Claudia Christian

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

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Author: Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Author: Winston Churchill

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

Author: Daniel Clowes

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

Author: Jarvis Cocker

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Author: Joe Cocker

I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one.

Author: Benjamin Cohen

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Author: Sidonie Colette

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

Author: Joan Collins

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

Author: Mason Cooley

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Author: Eric Cornell

In our heads we're all about 33 years old.

Author: Doug Coupland

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

Author: Alan Cox

It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground.

Author: Deborah Cox

Once you are over 30, 35 years old, I think everyone should get down to the gym and start moving again.

Author: Warren Cuccurullo

I'm a product of good nutrition, cutting edge supplementation and hard training, and I'm an old guy.

Author: Warren Cuccurullo

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

Author: Kieran Culkin

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

Author: John Cusack

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Author: Roald Dahl

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

Author: Bette Davis

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

Author: Mac Davis

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

Author: Richard Davis

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

Author: Moshe Dayan

Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.

Author: Ellen DeGeneres

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

Author: Dom DeLuise

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

Author: Phyllis Diller

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

Author: Placido Domingo

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.

Author: Kyan Douglas

I'm just a tough old woman.

Author: Marjory Douglas

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.

Author: Mary Douglas

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Author: Ernest Dowson

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

Author: Arthur Doyle

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

Author: Eleanora Duse

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Author: Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

Author: Hector Elizondo

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Author: Missy Elliot

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Author: Ralph Emerson

She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.

Author: Michael Ende

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

Author: R. Ermey

And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.

Author: Julius Erving

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic.

Author: Will Estes

The book has many different characteristics: some are extremely old-fashioned storytelling traits, but there are also a fair number of postmodern traits, and the self-consciousness is one.

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides

He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.

Author: Albert Finney

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

Author: Eddie Floyd

The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Author: Ben Folds

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

Author: Jeff Foxworthy

We get too soon old and too late smart.

Author: Frank Freas

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Author: Frederick Frederick II

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

Author: Jonathan Frid

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.

Author: Hayden Fry

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

Author: Stephen Fry

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Author: Robert Fulghum

Old foxes want no tutors.

Author: Thomas Fuller

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

Author: Sarah Gellar

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Author: W. George

I think they look upon me as an old child, because I'm so little.

Author: Estelle Getty

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Author: William Gibson

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

Author: Tracey Gold

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

Author: John Goodman

I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

Author: Robert Goulet

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Author: Philip Guedalla

If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.

Author: David Halberstam

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Author: Bridget Hall

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

Author: Jerry Hall

So it's really nice after about a year and a half to get back on stage and flex those old muscles.

Author: Michael Hall

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

Author: Renny Harlin

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Author: Michael Harrington

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

Author: Jean Harris

Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship.

Author: Gregory Harrison

The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.

Author: Albert Hart

That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.

Author: Ernie Harwell

Pamphlets on Sabbath writing are in request here I have been applied to for them by several of the old Methodists knowing that I had them to sell before.

Author: John Hawley

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Author: William Hazlitt

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Author: O. Henry

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Author: O. Henry

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

Author: Jack Herer

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Author: Robert Herrick

I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.

Author: Tony Hillerman

I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.

Author: Howard Hodgkin

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

Author: Benjamin Hoff

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Author: Oliver Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Author: Oliver Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.

Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Author: Bob Hope

Every old poem is sacred.

Author: Horace

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Author: Jane Howard

A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.

Author: Edgar Howe

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Author: Edward Howe