Old Quotes
15062 Old quotes by 7634 unique authors
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When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
— Lady Bird Johnson
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What's the difference between a bright, inquisitive five-year-old, and a dull, stupid nineteen-year-old? Fourteen years of the British educational system.
— Bertrand Russell
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Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let…
— Bob Uecker
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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
— Eileen Caddy
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This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in…
— Unknown Author
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A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
— William Feather
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It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
— Cesar Romero
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Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.
— Steve Hackett
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New arts destroy the old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the…
— Lawrence Durrell
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My life has always been geared towards my career. If my life is complete in other ways then I don't mind being a 65-year-old spinster.…
— Kylie Minogue
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Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going…
— Rajneesh
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I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked…
— Laurie Colwin
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There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic…
— Edward Lear
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Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and…
— Zig Ziglar
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Tranquility is the old man's milk.
— Thomas Jefferson
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