Whyn’t you get Candy to shoot his old dog and give him one of the pups to raise up? I can smell that dog a mile away. Got no teeth, damn near blind, can’t eat. Candy feeds him milk. He can’t chew nothing else. – John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men, Chapter 2. Carlson to Slim. Carlson is quick to suggest putting down Candy’s dog because it is old and decrepit.
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born. – Albert Einstein
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
Jean-Luc Picard: You know, sometimes you talk to me as if I were a benign old codger. Laris: Codger? Zhaban: Somewhere between a coot and geezer, I believe. Star Trek: Picard, ‘Remembrance’.
Lord, Lord! how subject we old men are to this vice of lying. – William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 2.
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual. – Gail Z. Martin
It’s an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ‘art’ to defend their collapsing culture. – George Grosz
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. – Hector Hugh Munro
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert… if it’s too loud, you’re too old. – Guillermo del Toro
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point. – H. P. Lovecraft
For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn’t mean that I would like to return to the old one. – Helen Suzman
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples. – Graham Chapman
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. – Howard Hodgkin
Old San Francisco – the one so many nostalgics yearn for – had buildings that related well to each other. – Herb Caen