Top 1200 Good Old Days Quotes & Sayings

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.

Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.

Remember we're all human and we all have our good days and bad days and days when we feel banging and other days when we feel absolutely rotten and that's ok.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

I go to my studio every day. Some days work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the nonproductive ones.

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.

There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead.

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them.

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.

Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield... . Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

You may have good days, there may be more bad days than good days, but on the good days you have to push yourself, get the most out of it as you can.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

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.

When Photoshop came around, I thought I'd died and went to heaven. When I hear artists say, 'Oh, the good old days' or 'I'm old school,' I just want to puke. There's no tool I won't use.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

The good old days are now.

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems

Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?

There's just so much experience that comes with being on set and working with good actors, and having bad days and good days.

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

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.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

My son, Sam, is 15 years old, and he's been a diabetic since he was 2. When you're a parent of a child with any kind of chronic illness, these things don't go away. You have a lot of good days, but some days you feel like you're losing bad.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

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.

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.