O Quotes
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“Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.”
Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.”
“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”
“Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.”
“Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.”
“Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.”
“Old and cold. High rates of suicide and prescription drug abuse. Look at the inbred faces at the grocery stores and coffee shops, the exercise-deficient kids, the routinized state workers, the sun-deprived adults and isolated third and fourth generation sad cases who've never experienced a meal outside of Lewis and Clark County. Make no mistake; Helena, Montana is old and cold and the rigid, sick antithesis of living.”
Source: Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“Old and dried up at the age of four-and-twenty, according to the ton. Which was ridiculous. She was perfectly moisturized and plenty young, than you very much.”
Source: Ruined by a Rake
“Old and frail my ass. There's no more vital sexagenarian, thought Joss, smiling to herself and realizing how much her grandmother would appreciate the pun.”
“Old and new kiss everywhere in Africa”
“Old and New (The Sonnet)
Old is not necessarily gold,
New is not necessarily cool.
Stereotypes without scrutiny,
Sustain only a society of fools.
Answer to one stereotype is not another,
Answer to one assumption is not another.
To make assumption is not wrong but,
To assume it as truth supreme is rhubarb.
Perception is all about assumption,
Our brain hasn't evolved to observe reality.
Biases prevent the observation of biases, unless,
You are hellbent to expand across comfort and luxury.
Stereotypes are archetypes of self-preservation.
Look outside the self and you'll find assimilation.”
Source: Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability
“Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.”
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
“Old anger is retrievable, you know. But it’s up to us to destroy their blood-sucking pathology.”
Source: They Whisper in my Blood
“Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)
“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”
Source: Jasper Johns: gravures et dessins de la collection Castelli, 1960-1991 : portraits de l'artiste par Hans Namuth, 1962-1989 : Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, Palais de Luppé, 4 juillet-30 septembre 1992
“Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.”
“Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.”
“Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.”
Source: Poetical works
“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”
Source: Mama Day: A Novel
“Old Ayr was seething with bargains, brawls, shaggy livestock, shaggier farmers and casual thieving. A typical market day, in other words.”
Source: Tam: The Three Changelings
“Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.”
Source: Great Expectations
“Old beggars in stories are never really old beggars," Simmon said with a hint of accusation in his voice. "They're always a witch or a prince or an angel or something."
"In real life old beggars are almost always old beggars," I pointed out.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
“Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.”
“Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?
“Old Biddy slept the peaceful sleep she deserved, the sweet blessed rest that comes to all those who have reached the end of their lives; as Bid had now come to hers.”
Source: The Adventures of Opal and Cupid
“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.”
Source: Despair
“Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?”
“OLD BLINDS Cannot Open the NEW DOORS”
“OLD BLUE (Anonymous)
Had an old dog and his name is Blue.
Betcha five dollars he’s a good’n too.
Here Blue, you good dog you.
Showed him the gun and I tooted my horn,
Gone to find a possum in the new-ground corn.
Old Blue barked and I went to see,
Cornered a possum up in a tree.
Come on Blue, you good dog you.
Old Blue died and he died so hard,
Shook the ground in my backyard.
Dug him a grave with a silver spade,
Lowered him down with a golden chain.
Every link I did call his name.
Here Blue, you good dog you.
Here Blue, I’m coming there too.”
Source: Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs
“Old bonds dissolve when a solvent of change enters. Grief is chemistry too.”
“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
Source: The Orchid Affair: A Pink Carnation Novel
“old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history”
Source: Saving Fish From Drowning
“Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.”
“Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Old boy gravitas oozes from his body like the peaty scent of Scotch from wood paneled rooms. Still, there’s enough of a bad boy glint in his eyes to know that he would shoot you the finger across the board room table if he objected to your business plan.”
Source: Extreme
“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
“Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.”
“Old buildings always end up garnering ghost stories, it’s just part of their mythos.”
Source: True Ghost Stories: Real Police Ghost Stories: True Tales of the Paranormal as Told by Cops and Other Law Enforcement Officials
“Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.”
Source: All Roads Lead to China
“Old but contented, the face of a man who had sipped life’s vinegar and found it, by and large, to be mostly whiskey, and good whiskey at that.”
Source: American Gods
“Old butterflies should have the sense to die while the summer sun is shining,”
Source: Gösta Berling's Saga
“Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see that it was horrible, per se... He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as rule refuse their jobs... They had not used to; now no doubt they did.”
Source: Parade's End
“Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.”
Source: The Poems: Complete in One Volume
“Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts”
Source: Perpetua and the Habit of Unhappiness
“Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.”
“Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations.”