Top 1200 Old And Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.

My hobby is old 4x4's, you know, old Blazers and Broncos and stuff.

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, 'Oh, I was 0-for-25, I was 0-for-30 one time.' I just try to not to get it that far, get it to that point and take it one at-bat as a time.

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

I think the reality is that, for me, real fur is extraordinarily old fashioned. I think you look old. Even if you're 20, and you've got a real fur coat, you just look like an old, unaware, unconscious being on the planet. It's not relevant, it's not sexy, it's not fashionable, and it's not cool.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world are the most selfish beings of all, that by cultivating altruism they actually achieve ultimate happiness for themselves?' Yes. That's wise selfish,' he replied. 'Helping others not means we do this at our own expense. Not like this. Buddhas and bodhisattvas, these people very wise. All their lives they only want one thing: to achieve ultimate happiness. How to do this? By cultivating compassion, by cultivating altruism.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

Mainly horror movies and exploitation movies and a lot of stuff comes from those press books from those old movies. Lines out of old movies, comic books that we collect, all the old horror comics of the 50s, probably about the only comics that we collect are obscure horror comics, the real sick ones from the 50s. Some stuff comes from there but mainly just old records, old rockabilly records and that stuff, singles mainly, 45s.