Strange Old Vehicles

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

Pulled pork jokes never get old. - Joel Edgerton

Old age is a wonderful disguise. - Katherine Applegate

You're a chimp off the old block. - Archie Bunker

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. - Dorothy Parker

To understand a new idea, break an old habit. - Jean Toomer

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. - Herman Melville

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

You are never too old to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug. - Al Gore

If youth had but the knowledge and old age the strength. - French Proverb

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams. - Yiddish proverb

When 900 years old, you reach... Look as good, you will not. - Yoda

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type. - Phyllis Diller

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. - Franklin P Adams

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. - Oscar Wilde

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. - D.H. Lawrence

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. - Francis Bacon

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am. - Sylvia Plath

A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver W. Holmes Jr.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. - Fred Astaire

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Adams

Some old women and men grow bitter with age. The more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get. - George D. Prentice

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates

There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die: their silence. - Ben Hecht

The young have aspirations that never come to pass; the old have reminiscences of what never happened. - Saki Reginald

Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. - French Proverb

While we drink, and call for garlands, for perfumes and for maidens, old age is creeping on us unperceived. - Juvenal

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange. - Dan Gable

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure they think he is getting old. - Washington Irving

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly. - Colette