All Quotes

Old is the new sexy.
‐‐ Ellen Barkin

Old Korn records had so much intensity.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
‐‐ Thomas Nelson Page

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
‐‐ Peter Hook

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
‐‐ Robert Plant

Old men need applause too.
‐‐ Don Everly

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

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

Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand names. It's about being invisible, almost. The billionaire can be taking the bus with you.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
‐‐ Jeff Lynne

Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
‐‐ Ziggy Marley

Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Old people are often impatient, but for what?
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
‐‐ Maggie Smith

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
‐‐ Grace Slick

Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.
‐‐ Edward Albee

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.
‐‐ Lynne Truss

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
‐‐ Jill Lepore

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
‐‐ Herb Caen

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.
‐‐ Thomas Lennon

Old-school hip hop, i.e., whatever was popular when you were nineteen, is great. Everything since then is intolerable.
‐‐ Teju Cole

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.
‐‐ Jenna Dewan

Old-school viewers remain adamant that 'The Real World' has deteriorated, as if the original enterprise were some pristine experiment that got sullied as the conditions in the lab got sloppier.
‐‐ Andrea Seigel

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

Old-style management is irrelevant.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
‐‐ Tacitus

Old third basemen become first basemen, and old first basemen become designated hitters.
‐‐ George Brett

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.
‐‐ John Ridley

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.
‐‐ Tim Wise

Old women especially are invisible. I have been to parties where no one knows who I am, so I am ignored until I introduce myself to someone picked at random. Immediately, word gets round, and I am surrounded by people who tell me they are my biggest fans.
‐‐ Ruth Rendell

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
‐‐ Archilochus

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
‐‐ Athenaeus

Older actors can still play young, but it's harder for young actors to be able to play that age range.
‐‐ David Schwimmer

Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
‐‐ Jimmy Buffett

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.
‐‐ Melanie Fiona

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.
‐‐ Pico Iyer

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.
‐‐ Robert Herjavec

Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky