Top 1200 Old Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

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

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

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

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

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

Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.

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

The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces. Candy is dandy But liquor is quicker.

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

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

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

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

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

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

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

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

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

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

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

One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

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

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

...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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

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.

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

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

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