Old quotes

“I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.” Lance Armstrong

“It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.” Lance Armstrong

“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.” John Adams

“Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.” John Adams

“Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” Ansel Adams

“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.” Ansel Adams

“These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.” Ansel Adams

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” Marcus Aurelius

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Edmund Burke

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.” Richard Bach

“You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.” Richard Bach

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” Robert Browning

“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.” Robert Browning

“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.” Robert Browning

“You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.” Robert Browning

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.” George Burns

“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.” George Burns

“You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.” George Burns

“I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.” George Burns

“I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.” George Burns

“Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.” William Seward Burroughs

“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.” Ambrose Bierce

“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.” Ambrose Bierce

“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” Ambrose Bierce

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” Stephen Covey

“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.” Stephen Covey

“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.” Joseph Campbell

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.” Washington Irving