Quotes of: Old-adage Keyword

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

Kirk Douglas

A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age.

New Zealander

He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.

Spanish

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Margaret Thatcher

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

Hesketh Pearson

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good ol...

Kurt Vonnegut

Man fools himself. He prays for a long life, and he fears an old age.

Chinese

Man is like palm-wine: when young, sweet but without strength; in old age, strong but harsh.

Congolese

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Hosea Ballou

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.

Ronald Blythe

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

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

John Goodman

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace.

John Murray

The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old ma...

Shel Silverstein

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do.

French

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn S. Yalow

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

Necessity's Child

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

Maggie Smith

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'

Brandon Flowers

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Bruce Springsteen

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Franklin Pierce Adams