Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

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

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.