Quotes of: Old-adage Keyword

No wise man takes responsibility for an eighteen-year-old daughter.

Chinese

Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.

Danish

When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.

French

Walk straight, my son -- as the old crab said to the young crab.

Irish

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

Caine's Law

...an old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.

Dark Places

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Fall of Kings

I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001

Girl From Above: Escape

The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.

Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

The Bell Jar

To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor healt...

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bonnie Raitt

I thought I'd live to a ripe old age, because I always felt there was a lot to do. I had a driven feeling. I always thought in the present.

Debbie Harry

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco de Quevedo

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Isaac D'Israeli

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.

Jane Fonda

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Julie Walters

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Keri Hilson

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

Michael Caine

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Monica Edwards

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

Mario Monicelli