What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau

Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
Ernest Hemingway

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.
Martin Luther

Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Samuel Goldwyn

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
Plato

I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.
Ansel Adams

Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift