Old countries don't disappear overnight; they stay for breakfast.
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.
Fish and guests smell when they are three days old.
A hundred-year-old revenge still has its baby teeth.
Old canoes can be restored, but youth and beauty cannot.
An old loan repaid is like finding something new.
If you would live in health, grow old early.
If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.
If you want to travel fast use the old roads.
He who doesn't like chattering women must stay a bachelor.
Women and wine rid a man of his common sense.
As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.
One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the g...
Don’t ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one’s death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you’re twenty years old again. That would be ...
But when your heart is tired and dumb, your soul has need of ease, There’s none like the quiet folk who wait in libraries– The counselors who never change, the friends who never go, The old books, the dear books that understand and know!
33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.
I visited my old haunt, but somehow without all my old friends there with me, the cemetery just wasn’t the same.
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-ol...
Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; nor ever stopped to think that the lore and those ways were the sole makers of their present thought...
I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old da...
