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.”

“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?”

“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

“Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.”

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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.

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

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

“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.”

“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong. ”

“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.”

“A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. ”

“Education is the best provision for old age. ”

“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ”

“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

Old quotes - All would live long, but none would be old.

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

Old quotes - By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

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

“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.”

“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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