Old quotes

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?” Lois McMaster Bujold

“All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.” Henry Ford

“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.” Steve Jobs

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” Steve Jobs

“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.” Socrates

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang

“Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.” Lin Yutang

“Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.” Lin Yutang

“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.” Roger Zelazny

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.” Mark Twain

“When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” Mark Twain

“All would live long, but none would be old.” Benjamin Franklin

“Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.” Benjamin Franklin

“By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.” Benjamin Franklin

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.” Benjamin Franklin

“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.” Benjamin Franklin

“I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.” Oscar Wilde

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.” Oscar Wilde

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.” Bruce Lee

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Oscar Wilde

“I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” Henny Youngman

“I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.” Antonio Banderas

“I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.” Antonio Banderas

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.” Agatha Christie

“Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.” Agatha Christie