Top 1200 Old Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The old men know when an old man dies.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

We grow too old to lose old friends.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ignorance is the beginning of knowledge; knowledge is the beginning of wisdom; wisdom is the awareness of ignorance.

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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.

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.

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

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

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

Good friends, how then are meditation and wisdom alike? They are like the lamp and the light it gives forth. If there is a lamp there is light; if there is no lamp there is no light. The lamp is the substance of light; the light is the function of the lamp. Thus, although they have two names, in substance they are not two. Meditation and wisdom are also like this.

Every old sock meets an old shoe

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

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.

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

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

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 GOP of old has grown old and moss covered.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

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

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

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.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

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

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.

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.

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