Time-Honored Quotes

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

I do like the word timeless. That's a great word.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Do not overthrow the custom that has made it all the way to you.

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

I like the word OLD. Not senior, that's for proms. Older? Older than whom? 'Old' is honorable and ripe

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

Nothing endures except truth.

The United States is already antique.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Not everybody has things that become classics.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

his voice was centuries old

Paper is more patient than man.

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.