Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!
Norman Rockwell

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
Susan B. Anthony

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
Leonard Cohen

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?
Charles Manson

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
Jules Renard

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
Arnold Palmer

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka