These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality a...
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--an...
I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell y...
For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some magical reason we always look the same to each other. Even our friends never seem to grow old. What a boon that is, and never suspected b...
Lone Watie: I'm gettin' better at sneaking up on you like this. Only an Indian can do something like this. Josey Wales: That's what I figured. Lone Watie: You figured? Josey Wales: Only an Indian could do something like that. [Lone Watie hears a gun ...
Joey Gazelle: You know... I used to know this kid. His old man was a real fucking piece of shit. Always drunk. Always smacking him and his mom around. This kid... he takes his licks and he waits this old fucking prick out. And on the morning of his f...
Alvin Straight: You don't think about getting old when you're young... you shouldn't. Cyclist #1: Must be something good about gettin' old? Alvin Straight: Well I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time but, still at m...
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
The strongest ox is only as strong as the old ox with a broken leg.
Old love and wood will burn as soon as they get the chance.
A thorn pierces young skin more quickly than old.
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
I've lost you, forever, so many times. And I'd do it all again.
They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
