The Old Quotes
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
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.
What’s going on?” he demanded. “The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.
Just keep moving! we're almost there." "almost where?" Juno chuckled. "all roads lead there child. you should know that" "detention?" Percy asked. "Rome, child, the old woman said. "Rome
In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.
I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.
And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?
I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.
So many of my friends, old friends I haven't seen in years, made their way out there and got lost, then found their way back. That seems believable to me.
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.
The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.
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.
For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.
And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.
When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.
I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
At any given time, if you live long enough, old age catches you . . . the only choices we have in life are either the impairment of old age or early death.
The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
I have a practice of really not talking about the competition. I'm from the old school.
Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
Who would have thought that grieving an old relationship and enjoying a new one could happen simultaneously, in parallel? Yet another thing you only find out once it's happening to you.
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.
I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.