Top 1200 Old-Timer Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

People that call old leads, drive old cars.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.