An old man telling lies is like a rich man stealing.
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.
Me dad planted that tree,’ she said absently, pointing out through the old cracked window. The great beech filled at least half the sky and shook shadows all over the house. Its roots clutched the slope like a giant hand, holding the hill in place....
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.
I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain ...
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age.
My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take my curses back. If ever I cursed my black old mother And wished she were in hell, I'm sorry for that evil wish And now i wish her well My old man died in...
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age.
He who eats a partridge in his youth will only be left with feathers in his old age.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame performance: it is the work only of some dependent...
