Old quotes

“I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.” Richard Dawkins

“I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.” Ellen DeGeneres

“Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.” Ellen DeGeneres

“I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him.” Ellen DeGeneres

“It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” Bertrand Russell

“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.” Bill Cosby

“The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.” Bill Cosby

“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'” Bill Cosby

“Old is always fifteen years from now.” Bill Cosby

“I'm old, not dead.” Bill Cosby

“I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.” Bill Cosby

“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.” Simone de Beauvoir

“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” Simone de Beauvoir

“To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.” William Blake

“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” William Blake

“I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” William Blake

“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.” William Blake

“Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.” William Blake

“I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!” William Blake

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” Francis Bacon

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” Francis Bacon

“Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.” Francis Bacon

“A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.” Francis Bacon

“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.” Francis Bacon

“We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.” Francis Bacon

“As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?” David Bowie

“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.'” David Bowie