Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one.
One never grows old, but when one stops growing one becomes old. So let's keep growing and evolving, become timeless and let's be eternal and MickeyMize your life.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
When a new book is published, read an old one.
Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger...
I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business ar...
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.
... was the great and general renunciation which old age makes in preparation for death, the chrysalis stage of life, which may be observed wherever life has been unduly prolonged; even in old lovers who have lived for one another with the utmost int...
I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]
To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?
Make New FrNdS But Keep D oLd , One iS silVer The Other is Gold.
All diseases run into one, old age.
