Old Quotes

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –

I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild youth.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

A man’s body may grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.

One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.

The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again.

You can’t be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.

New pain is an old pain wrapped in a new story.