Quotes of: Old-testament Keyword

A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old. His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.

The Dhammapada

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

The Diary of an Old Soul

Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience

Discovering Yourself

... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.

Exit Ghost

(God) being the old man invented in order to, and with whom to, hold long conversations.

Encounter

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

Einstein's Beach House: Stories

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

A Farewell to Arms

That’s the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

The Golden Compass

It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")

Ghostly, Grim and Gruesome

Mamma says she is quite certain that "how old is too old?" is not a question known to the Lord.

The Gospel According to Mamma

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

The Blue Castle

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.

Love

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27.

Bobby Darin

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Billy Graham

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Charlotte Bronte

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Confucius

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Carolyn Wells

I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it.

Danny Dyer

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

Dwight L. Moody