Mr. Witherspoon: [to himself] Another Roosevelt? Oh, dear, dear.
Jonathan Brewster: [to Dr. Einstein] To my dear dead brother.
Patricia Franchini: Are you afraid of getting old? I am.
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.
New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.
That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful indeed. They were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside. They were both an escape from reality a...
Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--an...
I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly. I will tell y...
For myself, hand on heart, those things never bothered me. It is one of the graces of married life that for some magical reason we always look the same to each other. Even our friends never seem to grow old. What a boon that is, and never suspected b...
Lone Watie: I'm gettin' better at sneaking up on you like this. Only an Indian can do something like this. Josey Wales: That's what I figured. Lone Watie: You figured? Josey Wales: Only an Indian could do something like that. [Lone Watie hears a gun ...
Joey Gazelle: You know... I used to know this kid. His old man was a real fucking piece of shit. Always drunk. Always smacking him and his mom around. This kid... he takes his licks and he waits this old fucking prick out. And on the morning of his f...
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...
If someone says "There is a wedding ceremony in the clouds," then the women would soon arrive with their ladders.
Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
When a man is wealthy he may wear an old cloth.
The strongest ox is only as strong as the old ox with a broken leg.
Old love and wood will burn as soon as they get the chance.
