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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. -- Will Rogers
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.' -- Kurt Vonnegut
The good old days are now. -- Tom Clancy
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days. -- Kabir Bedi
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever. -- Paulo Coelho
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days. -- Doug Larson
I don't do nostalgia. The phrase 'the good old days' never passes my lips. -- Nicholas Haslam
It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist. -- O. Henry
In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.' -- Brandon Flowers
God was awfully good to me during the good days. I cherish the old days, but I don't miss them. -- Don Ameche
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. -- Jimi Hendrix
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. -- Joel Osteen
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. -- Steffi Graf
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. -- David Attenborough
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. -- Bette Davis
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. -- Ernest Hemingway
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. -- Kirk Douglas
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. -- Frank Abagnale
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. -- Donald Bren
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! -- James Belushi
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. -- Nancy Friday
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. -- Regina Brett
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. -- Sherry Turkle
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. -- Don Kardong
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. -- Adrian McKinty
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. -- Elon Musk
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. -- Chuck Noll
Remember me for these days, not the old ones. -- Mitch Albom
"The good old days." The only good days are ahead. -- Alice Childress
This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy. -- Hollis Seamon
Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it. -- Ava DuVernay
It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old. -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't have to wait to realize the good old days. -- Ziggy Marley
In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny. -- Jose Froilan Gonzalez
The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week. -- Les Dawson
Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old, -- Chuck Berry
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone. -- Dick Gregory
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. -- Oscar Wilde
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old. -- Caroline Norton
I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey. -- Gail Porter
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains! -- Matsuo Basho
What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! -- William Shakespeare
Don't focus on the good old days, look forward towards the good new days. -- Joel Osteen
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon. -- Pat Oliphant
[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old. -- Mary McGrory
I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days. -- Rose Schneiderman
In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you. -- Bill Paxton
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. -- Charles Mackay
When we think of memetic culture, it is the sausage factory of the old days. -- Christopher Poole
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. -- Joe Biden
In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. -- Jimmy Hoffa
Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old. -- Jorge Posada
Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering? -- Arnold Wesker
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. -- Henri Poincare
Hell must be like... reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead. -- Samuel Beckett
I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies. -- Keith Johnstone
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. -- John Burroughs
This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it. -- Mike Pence
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! -- Prince Philip
I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. -- Almney King
The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now. -- Don Rickles
The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage. -- John Lennon
We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. -- Paul Feig
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen. -- Philip Yancey
Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days I was beautiful then. -- Trevor Nunn
The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now. -- Artie Shaw
Any great movie in the old days has a red herring. Hitchcock was so good at that. -- Robert Knepper
The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet. -- Luther Vandross
My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die. -- Tommy Tran
In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained -- Higa Yuchoku
What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office? -- Jennifer Crusie
Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. -- Martin Jackson
In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers. -- Richard Power
The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. -- Katy B
The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over. -- Will Rogers
We grew up in the good old days before kids had these damn computers and actually played outside. -- Jon Stewart
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. -- Rick Riordan
In the old days we were probably educated in cricket in a far more serious way than now. -- Frank Woolley
Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth. -- Elizabeth Goudge
You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it's the same old place. -- Barry McGuire
The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille. -- Laurie Colwin
In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. -- Confucius
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place. -- Barry McGuire
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. -- Leonardo da Vinci
I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life. -- Om Puri
To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep. -- George Eliot
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people. -- Bill Nighy
We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now. -- Margaret Chan
What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back? -- Marsha Norman
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I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days. -- Alonzo Bodden
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore. -- Rush Limbaugh
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. -- Manuel Puig
Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age -- Illmaculate
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! -- William Shakespeare
I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them. -- Ed Helms
THE GUYS IN THE OLD DAYS WHO BELIEVED THE EARTH WAS ROUND MUST HAVE HAD A VERY ROUGH TIME WITH ACADEMIA -- Jacque Fresco
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. -- Muriel Spark
It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest. -- Tim Winton
autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror. -- Elizabeth Goudge
Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. -- Jerome K. Jerome
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. -- Alice Stewart
I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground! -- Natasha Henstridge
I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!" -- Mitch Hedberg
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. -- Muriel Spark
I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks. -- Rodney Dangerfield
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life. -- Mariella Frostrup
When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washingtonâ??s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple. -- Kreayshawn
These days, even a moderate Democrat is someone who thinks you shouldn't be taught fisting until you're at least 12 years old. -- Ann Coulter
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. -- Pope Paul VI
The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do. -- Ty Cobb
Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life. -- Karen Gibbs

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