Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
‘Spring Day’ – I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.
When I said, ‘I’m only 19, but my mind is old’ – at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.
People are very open-minded about new things – as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.
I feel like my old self on the ice.
I was an extra on 21 Jump Street when I was 19 years old.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
I listen to old music, man.
I’m still a kid. I’m like six years old. But it’s just a matter of wanting to get up, it’s just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am.
I like mash-ups, taking contemporary songs and making them old… old songs, making them new.
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I’ll still be very proud that I was part of the ‘Harry Potter’ films.
I’d rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‘Truth is the daughter of Time.’
It’s always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months.
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
I’m much too young to feel this damn old.
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I’m an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once – and I get jammed.
I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.
I’m like an old turtle these days. I don’t run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I’ll be where I’m supposed to be.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome – just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
I swear by that old expression, ‘One monkey don’t stop no show!’ The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are.
I know you want me to let you in on some big secret to success in the NBA. The secret is there is no secret. It’s just boring old habits.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
My life has been such a blur since I was 18, 19 years old. I haven’t even had time to contemplate my own life. By forcing yourself to write your life story you learn a great deal about yourself.
To me – old age is always ten years older than I am.
A woman tells her doctor, ‘I’ve got a bad back.’ The doctor says, ‘It’s old age.’ The woman says, ‘I want a second opinion.’ The doctor says: ‘Okay – you’re ugly as well.’
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotionally that I have ever had to endure. Suddenly, you realize tomorrow might not come. Now I live by the motto, ‘Today is what I have.’
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it’s not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
I’m not getting old, I’m getting dead.
The truth is, I’m just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can’t help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the ‘good old days.’ I’m 28 years old. There haven’t even been that many ‘good old days.’ But still, I love to look back.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that’s what I think keeps me hungry.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.
Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Dad used to reminisce about the good old days when Everton won the old first division championship and the FA Cup back in the 1970s and 80s but they weren’t quite so good when I started supporting them.
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
