A person is always startled when he hears himself…

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

— Samuel Butler

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to…

— Thomas Paine

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

— Alice James

We have been called old rockers, rock pensioners, and dinosaurs.

— Ian Gillan

“As a kid, I thought the song Auld Lang Syne was called Old Man's Eye. I like my version better.”

— Stewart Stafford

“My Lord... what is Death like?" called the old man tremulously. "When I have investigated it fully, I will let you know," came the…

— Terry Pratchett

“He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.”

— Charles Dickens

I would say there's about 10 people who know that, that my car was called 'Old Sock.'

— Alan Tudyk

...an old man is twice a child.

— William Shakespeare

You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision…

— John Powell

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through…

— Mitch Albom

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students…

— Arnold Ross

Be kind to an old man.

— Walter Cronkite

What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he…

— Douglas Adams