Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
I was raised an orphan… My mother died when I was 2 years old.
I keep my old friends, and get older with them, but push young. It’s good to be surrounded by kids, because they keep you young.
A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid – the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single woman of good fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.
We should all start to live before we get too old.
I’ve thrown away lots of my old diaries – you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
I’m an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
It’s a funny old world.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
I don’t buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
I grow old learning something new every day.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
When I see old friends, I’m very excited.
Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.
The ‘good old times’ – all times when old are good.
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We’re growing old. It’s getting late.
Old age is a shipwreck.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
I’m not a Twitterer, I’m not a twerker, I’m not a Facebooker, I’m not nothing. I’m old school.
Whether I’m a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn’t change, whether I’m with adults or with my friends.
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his ‘basic rights.’
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
I’m not going to be rockin’ n’ rollin’ when I’m 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you’re 50.
I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.
Old age is a woman’s hell.
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
It’s exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
There’s a great tradition in storytelling that’s thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that’s really what I wanted to do.
When we were getting married the Hindu way in Arrah, we had an old guest who asked my wife what her ‘good name’ was. I think she’d heard that I had married a Muslim. When my wife said, ‘Mona Ahmed Ali,’ the lady looked at me and exclaimed, ‘Oh, so you’ve married a terrorist.’
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
And when I’ve been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren’t in very good shape.
Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
There was an open mic night when I was about 11 years old and I went and I played the songs that I’d written in my bedroom and it was the first night where I felt like I was myself at school.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Classic rock, psychedelic rock – I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
I see all these old people who don’t have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say ‘retired’ because that’s such a finality that I don’t want to be part of my life. I’ll work until they throw me in a box.
I want to remind the new generation about the power of old school romance.
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
By the time you know what to do, you’re too old to do it.
God cannot use you as He wishes until you come into the fullness of His Glory. Do not get alarmed, my friend, when doubts creep in. That is old Satan. Pray, pray, pray.
We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I don’t believe anymore in religions, because you see today there are religious wars, prejudice, false morals, and the woman is despised. Religion is too old now; it’s from another century, it’s not for today.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
When you retire, you don’t get fat and old. C’mon: it’s like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that’s when they die. You gotta keep moving.
