Quotes about Old Days

We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot. Votes: 4

I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.' Votes: 3

The good old days are now. Votes: 1

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. Votes: 1

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. Votes: 1

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Votes: 1

I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. Votes: 1

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. Votes: 1

In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.' Votes: 1

God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them. Votes: 1

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. Votes: 1

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days. Votes: 1

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. Votes: 1

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. Votes: 1

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed. Votes: 1

In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. Votes: 1

I really don't think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I'm respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I'm really looking forward. Votes: 1

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories! Votes: 1

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. Votes: 1

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us. Votes: 1

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy. Votes: 1

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings. Votes: 1

Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse. Votes: 1

If anyone thinks they'd rather be in a different part of history, they're probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You'd probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman. Votes: 1

One of the things you learn in football is that you're only as good as your last outing. I don't like to reflect on what we've done in the past. I'm not a very good storyteller, for one thing. I'd disappoint you. When it's time, I'll talk about the good old days. But it's a sign of old age, reveling in the past. Votes: 1

Remember me for these days, not the old ones. Votes: 0

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead. Votes: 0

This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy. Votes: 0

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it. Votes: 0

In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny. Votes: 0

I don't have to wait to realize the good old days. Votes: 0

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old. Votes: 0

The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone. Votes: 0

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry. Votes: 0

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week. Votes: 0

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old, Votes: 0

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. Votes: 0

In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races. Votes: 0

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. Votes: 0

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. Votes: 0

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey. Votes: 0

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old. Votes: 0

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. Votes: 0

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! Votes: 0

Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days. Votes: 0

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. Votes: 0

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! Votes: 0

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. Votes: 0

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old. Votes: 0

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days. Votes: 0

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you. Votes: 0

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. Votes: 0

When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days. Votes: 0

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. Votes: 0

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. Votes: 0

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old. Votes: 0

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering? Votes: 0

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. Votes: 0

Hell must be like... reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead. Votes: 0

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies. Votes: 0

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. Votes: 0

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it. Votes: 0

Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! Votes: 0

I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. Votes: 0

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. Votes: 0

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage. Votes: 0

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. Votes: 0

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen. Votes: 0

Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then. Votes: 0

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now. Votes: 0

Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that. Votes: 0

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet. Votes: 0

My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die. Votes: 0

In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained Votes: 0

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office? Votes: 0

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. Votes: 0

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. Votes: 0

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. Votes: 0

The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over. Votes: 0

We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside. Votes: 0

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. Votes: 0

In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. Votes: 0

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth. Votes: 0

You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place. Votes: 0

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille. Votes: 0

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. Votes: 0

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place. Votes: 0

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. Votes: 0

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life. Votes: 0

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. Votes: 0

I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people. Votes: 0

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now. Votes: 0

What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back? Votes: 0

Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days. Votes: 0

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days. Votes: 0

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore. Votes: 0

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. Votes: 0

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age Votes: 0

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! Votes: 0

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them. Votes: 0

THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA Votes: 0

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Votes: 0

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest. Votes: 0

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror. Votes: 0

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. Votes: 0

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. Votes: 0

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground! Votes: 0

I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!" Votes: 0

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Votes: 0

I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks. Votes: 0

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. Votes: 0

I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life. Votes: 0

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style. Votes: 0

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple. Votes: 0

These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old. Votes: 0

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. Votes: 0

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do. Votes: 0

Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life. Votes: 0

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. Votes: 0

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. Votes: 0

In the old days, you'd get credit if you would spend less money and have victory. That would be a good thing. Votes: 0

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie? Votes: 0

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. Votes: 0

I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady. Votes: 0

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days. Votes: 0

Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems Votes: 0

The old days are dead and gone days. For what I did in the past I have been punished. I have been cured. Votes: 0

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television. Votes: 0

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. Votes: 0

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it. Votes: 0

Nature is an old lady with few friends these days, and those who wish to make use of her charms, she rewards passionately. Votes: 0

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Votes: 0

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. Votes: 0

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man. Votes: 0

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster Votes: 0

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue Votes: 0

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead. Votes: 0

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies. Votes: 0

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. Votes: 0

In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout. Votes: 0

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Votes: 0

And I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old And magnificently we will fold into the mystic Votes: 0

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home. Votes: 0

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners. Votes: 0

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. Votes: 0

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now. Votes: 0

We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity. Votes: 0

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things. Votes: 0

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now. Votes: 0

If you live to be 100 years old, what you've done here for the last two days, weeks, monthswhat you've done here will echo in eternity. Votes: 0

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible. Votes: 0

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung. Votes: 0

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit. Votes: 0

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. Votes: 0

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! Votes: 0

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really. Votes: 0

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast. Votes: 0

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days. Votes: 0

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office. Votes: 0

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. Votes: 0

I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead. Votes: 0

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish. Votes: 0

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen. Votes: 0

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on. Votes: 0

I don't believe that the Earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. Votes: 0

In the old days it was called voodoo and they stuck needles in dolls, now it's called acupuncture and they stick the needles straight into the person. Votes: 0

When there's so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you've already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days? Votes: 0

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Votes: 0

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old. Votes: 0

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days. Votes: 0

The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung. Votes: 0

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. Votes: 0

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men. Votes: 0

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted. Votes: 0

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days. Votes: 0

The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them. Votes: 0

Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. Votes: 0

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin. Votes: 0

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. Votes: 0

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued. Votes: 0

What impresses me is the young actors with terrific talent arriving on the scene. They'd have blown us all away in the old days. Guys like Brad Pitt. Votes: 0

Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to. Votes: 0

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. Votes: 0

... it occurred to me that never again would he be seven years, one month and six days old, so we had better catch these moments while we can. Votes: 0

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now. Votes: 0

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time. Votes: 0

Let's just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to. Votes: 0

When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days. Votes: 0

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. Votes: 0

I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight. Votes: 0

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Votes: 0

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws. Votes: 0

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit. Votes: 0

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power. Votes: 0

You know, it shows how old I am. I can remember the good old days when the president picked the Supreme Court justices instead of the other way around. Votes: 0

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone. Votes: 0

It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television. Votes: 0

The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome. Votes: 0

There's no reason why a player is done at 33, 34. They train better, they eat better, they drink better. This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer. Votes: 0

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them... Votes: 0

I have removed a lot of negative influence in my life and try to surround myself with positive people. I have a much more simple life than the old days. Votes: 0

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now? Votes: 0

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell. Votes: 0

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— Unyielding. Votes: 0

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue. Votes: 0

In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it. Votes: 0

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.. Votes: 0

If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams. Votes: 0

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again. Votes: 0

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. Votes: 0

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way. Votes: 0

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. Votes: 0

I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house. Votes: 0

I think jamming is the way we begin to communicate. In the old days, people actually wrote notes on paper and sent them to each other. I guess that's how they jammed. Votes: 0

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much. Votes: 0

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from. Votes: 0

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels. Votes: 0

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. Votes: 0

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs. Votes: 0

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool. Votes: 0

Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly. Votes: 0

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field. Votes: 0

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth. Votes: 0

So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it. Votes: 0

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party. Votes: 0

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past. Votes: 0

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend. Votes: 0

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment. Votes: 0

I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it. Votes: 0

I miss the good old days when Daimons were warriors and combat trained. The ones I found tonight knew nothing about fighting, and I'm sick of the whole "˜my gun will solve all' mentality. (Wulf) Votes: 0

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is worse. It is not only bad, it is damaging, meretricious, seedy and cynical. Votes: 0

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks. Votes: 0

Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.... Votes: 0