Quotes of: Old-books Keyword

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

Richard Harding Davis

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Robert Jordan

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

Sinclair Lewis

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Solon

I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.

Sinead O'Connor

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Slavoj Zizek

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.

Tim Gane

I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

Tom Peters

Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.

Kathryn Lasky

I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.

LL Cool J

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I don't feel like a 40-year-old. I feel more like four 10-year-olds, each pulling in a different direction.

Michael Feldman

Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.

Ray Price

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.

Reese Witherspoon

Society tells us when we are old and no longer useful - screw that! It’s your mind and attitude that will tell you when you are old.

Steven Aitchison

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Mark Twain

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

Matisyahu

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

Carol Vorderman