Old Quotes

Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.

At a certain point the old you has to die off for the new you to become.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

I’d never trade my old girl for all the money in the world. I’d never trade my daughter Toya for all the money in the world. I’d never trade my only boy for all the money in the world. I put my last name first!

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind’s greatest strength.

The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.