Quotes of: Old-testament Keyword

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

Tommy Cooper

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

Thomas Szasz

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Wyndham Lewis

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

Ernest Gaines

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.

Natasha Leggero

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

Adam Bede

No good ever becomes of a man who forgets an old friend

A Hero of Our Time

New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?

I'll Be Seeing You

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

Jo's Boys

I am not going to ask that old man if his family home is haunted!

Restless Spirits

Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

No Country for Old Men

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

No Country for Old Men

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

Looking Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties

It’s her favorite movie. She’s one-year-old. It’s also her grandma’s favorite movie. Her grandma is three-years-old.

Sleepwalking is restercise

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.” “Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

Styxx

It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

The Old Man and the Sea

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Poor Richard's Almanack

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it's all the rage

Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems