Top 100 The Good Old Quotes
#1. The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#2. Walt: Do you miss the good old days?
Gracie: How old?
Walt: When we were old enough to be good.
Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young.
Sean Condon
#3. It's what the Taliban does in Afghanistan, it's what gets done in the Middle East, and it's clearly something that certain mainly conservative groups in the United States would like to do. They miss the good old days, when men were men and women were nothing.
Anna Quindlen
#4. When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
Tony Visconti
#5. Like normal people, leftists now have to get up in the morning and earn a living, seeing as the fascists have come down so hard on social welfare fraud, and this is the cruel reality. The good old days are gone, and increasingly, leftists are to be found working in ordinary, proper jobs.
Michael Leunig
#6. I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
Laura Donnelly
#7. I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix
#8. I don't have to wait to realize the good old days.
Ziggy Marley
#9. Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.
William Wordsworth
#10. Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
Nick Turse
#11. Whatever happened to the good old days when books just got along, cozied up together on bookshelves, hanging out, waiting to be read?
Karen Marie Moning
#12. But let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us, for his golden corn,
Send up our thanks to God!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#13. Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
Henry James
#14. I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward.
Donald Bren
#15. This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.
Hollis Seamon
#16. People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.
Richard C. Armitage
#17. The majestic architecture, the cultivated manners, the simplicity of life, the disregard for one's fellow man, the plagues, the rampant corruption, the unmitigated racism, and the uncontrollable violence--all the things our grandparents called 'the good old days'...
Chris Elliott
#18. Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?
Pete Townshend
#19. I jump from one thing to the next but try and strike a balance. But it's not nostalgic in the sense of 'those were the good old days and now we're not there'. I don't think like that. Not my way.
Ian MacKaye
#20. Don't start from the good old things but the bad new ones.
Benjamin Noys
#21. Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
D.H. Lawrence
#23. Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey
#24. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams
#25. Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.
Jack LaLanne
#26. Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
William Wordsworth
#27. It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.
Sherry Turkle
#28. Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.
Harriet Tubman
#29. You mean when we discovered the secret lair under the hangar where I'd been kept comatose for eight years of my life, then turned into a cyborg by some mystery surgeon before being given away to a family who didn't really want me? Yeah, Thorne, those were the good old days.
Marissa Meyer
#30. We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
Flora Thompson
#31. and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and
Kenneth Grahame
#32. As people ages, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days. And so every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it
Steven Pinker
#33. And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
Jacky Ickx
#34. The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.
Abraham Lincoln
#35. What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.
Jenny Eclair
#36. Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days.
Joel Osteen
#37. I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.
Taylor Kitsch
#38. The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.
John Lennon
#39. I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips.
Nicholas Haslam
#40. It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#42. In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
Joe Biden
#43. I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.
Chris Lowell
#44. I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.
Ed Helms
#45. The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
Paulo Coelho
#46. Oh hearts that loved in the good old way have been out of fashion this many a day
L.M. Montgomery
#47. I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.
John Muir
#48. Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
Manny Farber
#49. There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis
#50. Those were the good old days when educated Americans read foreign literature in translation, even works written in non-Western languages.
Minae Mizumura
#51. If I was president of the good old U.S.A., I'd turn the churches into strip clubs and watch the whole world pray.
Kid Rock
#52. We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.
Will Rogers
#53. You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around.
Jay Leno
#54. Sitting around on your big fat gluteus maximus talking about the good old days. The good old days are right this second. You've got to exercise VIG-OR-OUSLY! Life is tough. Life is a challenge. Life is a battlefield ... Life is an athletic event, and you must train for it.
Jack LaLanne
#56. Because the brain doesn't age, although its ideas about the world may harden and there's a greater tendency to run off at the mouth about how things were in the good old days. (I
Stephen King
#57. There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them ...
Tim Wise
#58. The experts or the cynics say, "Oh, those were the good old days, that's when drivers were really drivers. They didn't have all these aids." You know what? What we had, we did the best with and when we got more we provided what was needed.
Mario Andretti
#59. If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger Dijkstra
#61. Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Doug Larson
#62. These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.
Richard D. Zanuck
#63. Axonn sighed. "Just like the good old days," he said. "Now I remember why I hated them so much.
Greg Farshtey
#64. I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.
Scott MacDonald
#65. before long we'll be pining for the good old days, when, no matter how often people failed to uphold the standards of integrity, those standards actually meant something.
Anonymous
#66. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We
Brian McLaren
#67. Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?
Jay Leno
#68. Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise.
Anonymous
#69. Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon.
Liane Moriarty
#70. I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.
Steffi Graf
#71. The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
Mario Andretti
#72. The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.
Les Dawson
#73. I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
Clare Short
#74. I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days.
Alonzo Bodden
#75.
In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson
#76. The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.
Dick Gregory
#77. She told me once she envied the women who lived back in the good old days who only had to worry about Indians and mountain lions killing their husbands. Something about those things being beyond a wife's control.
Tawni O'Dell
#78. But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method[1] than from that which is now commonly called a "breviary," though in the good old days, when real Latin was spoken, it was called a "summary."[2]
Seneca.
#79. No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again ... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
Anne Lamott
#80. Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days.
Mohammed Hanif
#81. A federal grand jury is investigating allegations that David Copperfield raped, assaulted and threatened a woman he took to his private island in the Bahamas in July. What happened to the good old days when a guy would just saw you in half?
Chelsea Handler
#82. Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.
Alan Gibbons
#83. When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?
Dave Grohl
#84. I feel like I've joined an enormous club, something like the Veterans of Foreign Wars. We are weary with battle fatigue and sometimes even gripped by nostalgia for the good old, bad old days, but our numbers are large.
Theo Pauline Nestor
#85. Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days - that was sad.
Rick Riordan
#87. It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.
Damian Kulash
#88. 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.
Lin Yutang
#89. This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.
Jonathan Galassi
#90. We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside.
Jon Stewart
#91. When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry.
P. J. O'Rourke
#92. The other two entered the room. Vimes gave his men his usual look of resigned dismay.
"My squad," he mumbled.
"Fine body of men," said Lady Ramkin. "The good old rank and file, eh?"
"The rank, anyway," said Vimes.
Terry Pratchett
#93. He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my bed, and I took a refreshing sip. Just right, as usual. Not too hot, not too sweet, not to weak, not too strong, not too much milk, and not a drop spilled in the saucer. A most amazing cove, Jeeves. So dashed competent in every respect.
P.G. Wodehouse
#94. In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'
Brandon Flowers
#95. We have lost the good old British spirit. Instead we have American journalism and black-shirted buffoons making a cheap imitation of ice-cream sellers.
Oswald Mosley
#96. As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline - the illusion of the good old days.
Steven Pinker
#97. Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#98. When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
Karl Lagerfeld
#99. Hey, remember when you didn't know that you wanted Otter to spray his man babies all over your face and we didn't have to talk about our feelings all the time?"
"Yeah, those were the good old days.
T.J. Klune
#100. The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.
Will Rogers
