You cannot build a house for last year's summer.
He who invites storks must have frogs in the house.
Three things come into the house uninvited: debts, age, and death.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
In the hangman's house you will always find a rope.
Better just repair the gutter than the whole house.
Before you build a house you have to dig a pit.
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.
You know how old I am? I'm so old, I remember when Letterman used to be funny and it was presidents who were serious. That's how old I am.
A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.
