Pastoral Resources

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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.

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

I grew up listening to old soul.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.