Top 1200 Old And Wise Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

The GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.

I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.

Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."

Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself.

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

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.

I was way behind in my maturity. I was a 30-year-old acting like a 23-year-old. So when I was 21, I was probably acting like a 15-year-old.

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.

I love old moons. There is something humanized about them; they are dulled a little, and rich in color. One can stare all night at an old moon.

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

There are old people in San Francisco because my parents still live there. The young tech bros don't see old people or children. The Mission district, where they live and work, they don't see children or old people. That statement revealed, to me, the blinders that the techies are wearing.

I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I've waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count on the Bookmobile.

I was 28 years old playing a 16-year-old. I just kept my mouth shut. I never talked about it.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

I was always Armie. There couldn't be a 90-year-old Armand and a 9-day-old one. And I heard enough jokes about baking soda.

I think there's an interesting contradiction of having a young face and an old soul. There's something funny about it, and it also allows you to reinvent being old.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

I'd like to see a return to old-school values, classic service and the old-world glamour of what dining - going out - is supposed to be.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem

When I was a kid, I loved Popeye, but the old ones, the real old ones.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

Sometimes I feel that old desire. Then my body tells me it is 50 years old. I take the easy way instead.

My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.