When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

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

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Neale Donald Walsch

Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. Doctors say that Pamela is doing fine and that her old implants are now dating Charlie Sheen.
Conan O'Brien

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Stephen King

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B. F. Skinner

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.
Jeff Foxworthy

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

To the old, the new is usually bad news.
Eric Hoffer

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Jimmy Buffett

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon