Top 1200 Old And Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

People that call old leads, drive old cars.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

Catholic media sucks. It's boring. It's for old people. It's not interesting. It's like you're in a class with an 80 year old nun.

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

It's exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you're getting to the end of the process of making a record.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

It was the 60th anniversary of 'Face the Nation.' During his interview, President Obama said, 'Our country doesn't fear the future. We grab it.' Nothing says you grab the future like going on a 60-year-old show hosted by a 77-year-old-man to speak to a 90-year-old audience.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.

True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I've met fans that are 9 months old to 90 years old.

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so.

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

What we call music in our everyday language is only a miniature, which our intelligence has grasped from that music or harmony of the whole universe which is working behind everything, and which is the source and origin of nature. It is because of this that the wise of all ages have considered music to be a sacred art. For in music the seer can see the picture of the whole universe; and the wise can interpret the secret and nature of the working of the whole universe in the realm of music.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

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 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.