Alex: One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy, dirty old drunkie, howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking, rotten guts. I could never stand to se...
Ralphie: Hey Dad! I bet you never guess what I got you for Christmas! The Old Man: [staring blissfully into space] A new furnace? Ralphie: [chuckling] He he, that's a good one Dad! Randy: [lauging] He he he! Ralphie as Adult: My old man was one of th...
[Roger and Peter are startled by the Old Priest] Old Priest: Señores, please to let me pass. Roger: Let's get him to the med unit. Old Priest: No, no, please. Just let me pass. I go up to seventh floor to find my sister; just let me pass. The people...
Paul: Yeah, where's the old mixer? Grandfather: Here, Paulie. Paul: I've got a few words to say to you, two-faced John McCartney. John: Oh, leave him alone. He's back, isn't he? He can't help being old. Paul: What's being old got to do with it? He's ...
Yoda: That face you make... look I so old to young eyes? Luke: No. Of course not. Yoda: I do. Yes, I do. Sick have I become, old and weak... When nine hundred years old *you* reach, look as good *you* will not, hmm?
Carla Jean Moss: You don't have to do this. Anton Chigurh: [smiles] People always say the same thing. Carla Jean Moss: What do they say? Anton Chigurh: They say, "You don't have to do this." Carla Jean Moss: You don't. Anton Chigurh: Okay. [Chigurh f...
Old Satan couldn't get along without plenty of help.
An old bachelor compares life with a shirt button that hangs often by a thread.
No wise man takes responsibility for an eighteen-year-old daughter.
Old mistakes need more friends than new truths.
When all other sins are old, greed still stays young.
Walk straight, my son -- as the old crab said to the young crab.
The multitude of men and women choose the less adventurous way of the comparatively unconscious civic and tribal routines. But these seekers, too, are saved—by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yieldi...
We do not now stand in the middle; in every aspect of our life we have, deliberately or by the 'conditioning' of birth, education or environment, allowed ourselves to stand on one bank of the river of life, with some intolerance of those who were foo...
We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and...
Again, it's about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It's very important that the older generation sees this, feels it, and tastes it. Otherwise they beco...
Withnail: [on the way to the cottage] At some point or another I want to stop and get hold of a child. Marwood: What do you want a child for? Withnail: To tutor it in the ways of righteousness, and procure some uncontaminated urine. [holding up a Fai...
That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.
...an old guy with a Hemingway beard and the build of a girl.
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001
