Old Quotes

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
Phyllis Diller

My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
Quentin Tarantino

Crazy, Small, Theatre

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Acting, Head, Quite

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Age, Death, Pain

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Change, Great, Young

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
Rose Kennedy

Wine, Often, Bring

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Rich, Ugly, Prudence

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller

Someone, Shoes, Barefoot

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.
Harvey Fierstein

Time, Good, Help

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Everything

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age, Older, Fifteen

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake

Happy, Two, Joy

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing

Change, Great, Confusion

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.
Andy Rooney

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Young, Clever, Admire

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Happy, Together, Pride

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens

Girl, Before, Her

Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
Orson Welles

Christmas, Off, While

It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
Harry S. Truman

Work, Time, Political

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Mary Schmich

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Keep, Wanted

The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Emily Dickinson

Age, Thought, Suddenly

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Morning, Friend, Days

America is a young country with an old mentality.
George Santayana

Country, America, Young

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Everything, Destiny

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley

Time, Else, Getting

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.
Andre Maurois

Age, True, Evil

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. Somerset Maugham

Age, Different, Youth

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