Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Joe Namath

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Rowan Williams

Wrinkles don’t signify old age, they signify a lack of ironing skills or a dearth of hangers to hang clothes on.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Eldora smiled up at Paulo cunningly, her dark eyes twinkling. “You are old, Father.” “Not as old as I shall be, before I have finished with the universe.

Aizai the Forgotten

Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

The Inner Circle

In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes stronger in a man when he reaches an advanced age.

Indian Summer

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic.

Mosses from an Old Manse

The eight-year-old beat your best cadet in hand-to-hand combat?” “So did the six-year-old girl, ma’am. Actually, she beat the instructor also.

Max

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Now everything is sold on the Internet and anybody at all who doesn't know a thing can give their opinion.

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

La pista di sabbia

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

The Lucy Variations

In a town in Calabria, a long time ago, there lived an old lady everyone called Strega Nona, which meant "Grandma Witch".

Strega Nona

Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings of Cezanne's old age, is one of the keys to our century. A touchstone of modernity itself.

The Shock of the New

What if experience is disappointment, and a human’s old age has not a sense and all what we acquire in our lifetime is a habit for disappointment?

The Sunless Parlour

Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi

Styxx

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

One Hundred Years of Solitude