Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

The Old Man and the Sea

What's remarkable about old age is not that we wear out but that we last so long in the grip of gravity.

A Private History of Awe

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.

The Robber Bride

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.

Tall Man Small Shadow

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

A Woman of No Importance

I don’t know what the old you was like, but the new you, the older you than the old you, is new and fresh. 

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Enjoy every second—even if at first you only win second. Keep competing until all your competition has died of old age and you are the winner by default.

Xazaqazax

Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

Viggo Mortensen

The old think the young are lazy and entitled. The young think the old are incompetent and inefficient.

Flying Without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

The Reformer's Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Leo Buscaglia

I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

Pablo Casals

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

Peter Hain

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

Pico Iyer

I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

Pete Townshend

I can see myself as a very old man in a terrific wheelchair. Only, I won't be photographing the tree outside my window, the way Steichen did. I'll be photographing other old people.

Richard Avedon

People assume that 'The Expendables' is old school, but it's only old school because that's the way I know how to make an action film. It's pretty real.

Sylvester Stallone

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

John Zorn