Old
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
I've been dancing since I was 6 years old. That kind of relentless dedication and intensity is where I'm comfortable.
My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents.
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
To me — old age is always ten years older than I am.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Fake is as old as the Eden tree.
Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman'. Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.
For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements — whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
I love everything that's old, — old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.