Top 636 Old Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Old Quotes from famous people such as Fay Weldon, Josh Billings, Evelyn Waugh, Eric Schlosser, Sylvia Earle, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There’s no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Fay Weldon
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Josh Billings
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
Evelyn Waugh
One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.
Eric Schlosser
The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. ‘Who, what, where, why, when, and how!’ They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old.
Sylvia Earle
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H. P. Lovecraft
I have no idea about the state of rap. I don’t pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.
Ad-Rock
Liberal democracy – as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today’s left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.
Slavoj Zizek
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
David Brainerd
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock
Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it – but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Jackie Kennedy
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.
Lou Holtz
Maybe I’m young, but I still have an old school feel to me.
Tommaso Ciampa
Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
Wayne Dyer
For thousands of years, we have gained the power to control the world outside us but not to control the world inside. You could stop a river from flowing, but you could not stop your body from becoming old. You could kill mosquitoes, but you could not kill annoying thoughts buzzing inside your head.
Yuval Noah Harari
All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.
Robert Owen
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark
I’ve shut myself inside these walls, and I’m going to be a very lonely old lady if I’m not careful.
Danielle Steel
I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.
Ariana Grande
I hope I die before I get old.
Roger Daltrey
One of things I like about looking at pictures when you’re young and also meeting back with old friends you haven’t seen in a long time is, for me, it’s a glimpse of who I was.
Lea Thompson
If I miss anything about the sport, it’s the camaraderie of old teammates.
Bo Jackson
I don’t care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
Chinua Achebe
We can change the world if we change ourselves. We just need to get hold of the old patterns of thinking and dealing with things and start listening to our inner voices and trusting our own superpowers.
Nina Hagen
Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.
Henry Fox
You know you’re getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
Jimmy Dean
I don’t live in the past. I don’t play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.
Prince
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne
No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. Rowling
I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.’
Paul Walker
Wherever I see people doing something the way it’s always been done, the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be done, following the same old trends, well, that’s just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
Mark Cuban
I don’t want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
Grace Slick
I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
Florence Welch
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
Ian Ziering
Everyone talks about the good old days, when guys were tough and quarterbacks got crushed all the time, but back in the day, there weren’t defensive ends that were Mario Williams – 6-7, 300 pounds, 10 percent body fat, running a 4.7 40.
Carson Palmer
Everything has become so easy. It’s great that it’s at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we’re connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we’re speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
Rami Malek
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
David Mamet
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn’t going to die.
Ian McShane
But the one thing I’ll always know is that people don’t know what they want until they get it. They didn’t know they wanted a song about taking a horse to the old town road in 2019. But they did.
Lil Nas X
Don’t say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.
Mark Twain
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Euripides
These interviews, sometimes they jog your memories, like what you were doing when you were 10 years old. They’re always searching for your past; they can keep you living there. I want to go on to the future.
Marvin Hagler
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
Jonathan Powell
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.
Joel A. Barker
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I do believe in the old saying, ‘What does not kill you makes you stronger.’ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.
Angelina Jolie
We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
Pope Francis
Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.
Michael Jordan
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.
Anne Graham Lotz
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don’t grow old. Face it you are young.
Jarvis Cocker
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could there be than living healthfully and actively into old age with no dependence on medications and almost no risk of heart disease, diabetes or dementia?
Joel Fuhrman
In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson
When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about b

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.
Rihanna
Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.
Emily Levine
After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn’t happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.
Chris Parnell