Old quotes

“My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.” Clint Eastwood

“You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.” Clint Eastwood

“As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.” Clint Eastwood

“Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.” Clint Eastwood

“The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.” Clint Eastwood

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.” Edgar Allan Poe

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” Audrey Hepburn

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” Audrey Hepburn

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.” Audrey Hepburn

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.” Audrey Hepburn

“It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'” Audrey Hepburn

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” Helen Keller

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” Helen Keller

“I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.” Helen Keller

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.” Muhammad Ali

“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.” Muhammad Ali

“Old age is just a record of one's whole life.” Muhammad Ali

“Our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett

“Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.” Warren Buffett

“Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.” Warren Buffett

“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.” George Carlin

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.” George Carlin

“I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.” George Carlin

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.” Ernest Hemingway

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” Ernest Hemingway