Quotes about Old, page 9

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician, things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.

Quote by Louis Armstrong about old

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about old

I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about old

Experience the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about old

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about old

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Quote by William Feather about old

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about old

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about old

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Quote by Charles Haddon Spurgeon about old

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about old

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

Quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau about old

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about old

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

Quote by Knut Hamsun about old

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Quote by Nicolas Malebranche about old

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart about old

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Quote by Dorothy Parker about old

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

Quote by David Copperfield about old

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one. If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old.

Quote by Sophia Loren about old

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

Quote by Miguel de Unamuno about old

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even...

Quote by Edward Coke about old