Quotes of: Old-thing Keyword

Alvin Straight: You don't think about getting old when you're young... you shouldn't. Cyclist #1: Must be something good about gettin' old? Alvin Straight: Well I can't imagine anything good about being blind and lame at the same time but, still at m...

The Straight Story

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

English

When a man is wealthy he may wear an old cloth.

Ghanaian

The strongest ox is only as strong as the old ox with a broken leg.

Myanmar

Old love and wood will burn as soon as they get the chance.

South American

A thorn pierces young skin more quickly than old.

Serbian

Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.

Traditional

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson in His Journals

I've lost you, forever, so many times. And I'd do it all again.

Echoes of Old Souls

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.

Before I Wake

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

Anne Bradstreet

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley

I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'

Cher

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Hesiod

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

People do not realize that Alzheimer's is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer's every day.

Melina Kanakaredes

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

William Wordsworth

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

Ian Hislop

We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.

Healing Old Wounds With New Stitches