Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better...
Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it...
How old are you?" "Ten," answered Tangle. "You don't look like it," said the lady. "How old are you, please?" returned Tangle. "Thousands of years old," answered the lady. "You don't look like it," said Tangle. "Don't I? I think I do. Don't you see h...
Zachry: Who tripped the Fall, if not Old Georgie? Meronym: True-true? The Old Uns. Zachry: That's just a rope o'smoke. Old Uns got the Smart. They mastered sick and seeds, they make miracles and fly across the sky. Meronym: True. All true. But they g...
Alex: One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to se...
Ralphie: Hey Dad! I bet you never guess what I got you for Christmas! The Old Man: [staring blissfully into space] A new furnace? Ralphie: [chuckling] He he, that's a good one Dad! Randy: [lauging] He he he! Ralphie as Adult: My old man was one of th...
[Roger and Peter are startled by the Old Priest] Old Priest: Señores, please to let me pass. Roger: Let's get him to the med unit. Old Priest: No, no, please. Just let me pass. I go up to seventh floor to find my sister; just let me pass. The people...
Paul: Yeah, where's the old mixer? Grandfather: Here, Paulie. Paul: I've got a few words to say to you, two-faced John McCartney. John: Oh, leave him alone. He's back, isn't he? He can't help being old. Paul: What's being old got to do with it? He's ...
Yoda: That face you make... look I so old to young eyes? Luke: No. Of course not. Yoda: I do. Yes, I do. Sick have I become, old and weak... When nine hundred years old *you* reach, look as good *you* will not, hmm?
Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.
An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.
No wise man takes responsibility for an eighteen-year-old daughter.
Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.
When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.
Walk straight, my son -- as the old crab said to the young crab.
Ed, the car salesman: I'll get to the bottom of this. Davenport! Davenport: Yes, Mr. Ed? Ed, the car salesman: Mr. Griswold ordered a blue sports wagon, where is it? Davenport: I don't know sir. Ed, the car salesman: [to Clark] I know what must have ...
That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.
...an old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
The century's getting old and stale; it needs new tribes.
