Old Persons Sayings

#1. Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

George Santayana

#2. Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#3. In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Probably Providence has implanted peevishness and ill-temper in sick and old persons, in compassion to the friends or relations who are to survive; as it must naturally lessen the concern they might otherwise feel for their loss.

Laurence Sterne

#5. The British Government very naturally would like to see in India the form of democratic constitutions it knows best and thinks best, under which the Government of the country is entrusted to one or other political party in accordance with the turn of elections.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#6. To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience ...

Thomas Hardy

#7. The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

#9. Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

Agnes Repplier

#10. I know that youngsters want to find something in common with each other and feel closer to each other ideologically through bridges such as the Internet.

Shakira

#11. I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Jonathan Edwards

#12. Mr. Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?

Henry Cooper

#13. Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Alex Haley

#15. It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

Richard Whately

#16. It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

Alice Walker

#17. Perhaps if he stumbled onto a bath and a tailor he could even be considered handsome.

Katherine McIntyre

#18. There is an old Scholastic distinction between religious treatises written "de Deo uno" and those written "de Deo trino": between, that is, those that are "about the one God" known to persons of various faiths and philosophies and those that are "about the Trinitarian God" of Christian doctrine.

David Bentley Hart

#19. My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose.

C.S. Lewis

#20. Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits-sexual rapture, political utopia, economic independence-are but blind alleys in which rot the corpses of the many who have tried them

Fr. Seraphim Rose

#21. Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.

Robert Walpole

#22. I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

John Kasich

#23. Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.

Georgette Heyer

#24. Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government ...

David Rockefeller

#25. We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Harriet Lerner

#26. I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

Liam James

#27. Never let an old person live in your body.

Michael Savage

#28. Refuse to let an old person move into your body.

Wayne Dyer

#29. How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#30. I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

Sebastian Horsley

#31. I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. I reckon if you care for someone and you can't have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they're going to find some happiness in the world.

Lindsay Buroker

#33. Never think oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

James Farley

#34. The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

William Hazlitt

#35. Entering the house of God to dwell with God, beholding, glorifying and enjoying him eternally, I suggest, is the story of the Bible, the plot that makes sense of the various acts, persons and places of its pages, the deepest context for its doctrines.

L. Michael Morales

#36. If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.

Criss Jami