The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Archie GriffenIn the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don`t want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.
- Alfred HitchcockOld age is no place for sissies.
- Bette DavisWhy is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.
- Dale E. TurnerPeople grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.
- Douglas MacArthurToo many people grow up. That`s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don`t remember what it`s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won`t do that.
- Walt DisneyThe land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.
- William Butler YeatsWhen I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
- Oscar WildeOld men are dangerous it doesn`t matter to them what is going to happen to the world
- George Bernard ShawLearning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
- Leonardo Da VinciSomewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference
- Robert FrostLoving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.
- Jean HarrisThe oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit
- German ProverbOld age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to
- Joe GoresIt is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
- Lydia Maria Francis ChildMen do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes