Old - Quotes
Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
One thought keeps going round my head:
The thought of dying in my bed!
Slowly withering like some overblown
Flower the greenfly gnaws and makes his own;
Wasting away like an old candlestick
In a deserted room, grown pale and sick.
I lived with this computer for a couple of months, and then I recognized the god. It was Yahweh of the Old Testament: a lot of rules and no mercy!
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
I want to tell you you`re my baby, that I`ll love you till we`re old and gray - though that`s not gonna happen.
Takin in a whole new scene and I`m swimmin with a new crowd;
Breakin down the old four walls and I`m buildin them up from the ground.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.