I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

I did a club one night – the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

Mothers shouldn’t be allowed to get old and fragile.

White-haired little old ladies (LOLs for short) are due a certain amount of respect, just on the basis of longevity, if nothing else.

There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.

If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American heart, and sealed with the blood of American martyrs, but is the only lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a nation.

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney.

I’m growing older, but not up.

I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

It was an old song, old as the breed itself – one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

As my brother and I get older and busier, I really cherish the time we spend together.

And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk and restorative cordial.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity

The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

We’ll grow old waiting.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.

There is but one church in the world who are at the present time standing in the breach and making up the hedge, building up the old waste places.

An old friend is a new house.

I had a job since I was old enough to work – since I was, like, 14.

The best mirror is an old friend.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.

I’m a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I’d discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, ‘Damn – I’m too old for this.

Hit hard, hit fast, hit often.

My mom’s hot. I mean she’s old, but my mom’s out of control.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

When and where will another come to take your holy place? Old man mumbling in his dotage, or crying child, unborn?

Change is in the air, as old patterns fall away and new energies are emerging. Consciously release what needs to be released, and welcome with a full embrace the newness you’ve prayed for and so richly deserve.

It’s a funny old world.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

You are never too old to become younger.

Put your own twist on it. That’s how you say relevant. Or things get old and boring.

There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

All would live long, but none would be old.

There comes a point, I think, as you get a little older, you feel that nothing represents you. You can see the value of many positions, even positions that are in savage conflict with one another. You can locate components on both sides that resonate within you.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I’d probably be a cult figure today

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that.

Did you just call me old? I really prefer the word ‘experienced’.

The great thing about turning 30 in this business is that you get to perpetuate being young or old as long as we want.

Thirty is a very good age for an actor: you can play both young and old men.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.

Even when I’m old and gray, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game.