Best Kind Of Antique

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. - Brigitte Bardot

Old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard Baruch

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace. - Richard Steele

Never complain about getting old; it is denied many. - Dal Richards

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. - African Proverb

A shop should be like a song of which you never tire. - Harry Gordon Selfridge

The gods bestowed on him the gift of perpetual old age. - Oscar Wilde

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. - Jonathan Swift

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

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. - Phyllis Diller

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige

There's no word yet for old friends who've just met. - Jim Henson

You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself. - Yogi Berra

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain

Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart. - Bruce Willis

I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate. - Phyllis Diller

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music. - Steve Race

Ever hear of the old saying, "grass don't grow on a busy street?" - Archie Bunker

W.C. Fields has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. - Gene Fowler

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. - Oscar Wilde

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk. - Chavela Vargas

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. - Samuel Butler

The great comfort of turning 49 is the realization that you are now too old to die young. - Paul Dickson

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones. - John Cage

Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people. - Maggie Scarf

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business. - Harvey Mackay

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. - Dee Hock

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

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. - Willem Dafoe

You can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you. - Mark Twain

I refused to go on 'Grumpy Old Men.' I said, 'If I go on, I will be grumpy about grumpy old men.' - Stephen Fry

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. - Mark Twain

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum

With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff. - Rodney Dangerfield

When it comes to hockey, it's been in my blood since I was 3 or 4 years old. I love coaching the kids, especially at that level. - Mario Lemieux

I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s. - Leonard Nimoy

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold you have escaped, not from one master, but from many. - Plato