O Quotes
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“Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.”
“Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.”
“Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
“Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.”
Source: A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World
“Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we once wore to survive the winters. It is an old custom, the handing down of things. A good knife, a well-made pipe, a heavy robe. Tradition falls prey to constant change, and creativity becomes so revered that the past is a relic, only to be admired. But in this coat, I was held to the earth, pulled to the past by its weight.”
“Old customs are not meant to make us old.”
“Old Dan must have known he was dying. Just before he drew his last breath, he opened his eyes and looked at me. Then with one last sigh, and a feeble thump of his tail, his friendly gray eyes closed forever.”
“Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!”
“Old Delhi does not change. It only decays. My students tell me it is a great cemetery, every house a tomb. Nothing but sleeping graves. Now New Delhi, they say is different. That is where things happen. The way they describe it, it sounds like a nest of fleas. So much happens there, it must be a jumping place. I never go. Baba never goes. And here, here nothing happens at all.”
Source: Clear light of day
“Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives
And more – I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;
And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives
And the village is proud of him in his decline.
At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy,
When he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,
The Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well, of all …
Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! …
Ho! hi!
Oh, my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess
I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!"
Old Deuteronomy sits in the street,
He sits in the High Street on market day;
The bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat,
But the dogs and the herdsman will turn them away.
The cars and the lorries run over the kerb,
And the villagers put up a notice: ROAD CLOSED —
So that nothing untoward may chance to disturb
Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed
Or when he's engaged in domestic economy:
And the Oldest Inhabitant croaks: "Well of all …
Things … Can it be … really! … No! … Yes! …
Ho! hi!
Oh, my eye!
My sight's unreliable, but I can guess
That the cause of the trouble is Old Deuteronomy!”
Source: Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
“Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become as locked into yours as the quietest and kindest of marriages.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“Old dogs can learn new tricks. Not only that, but can perhaps learn them even better than young dogs-once they get over the notion that they can't learn them.”
Source: Never Too Late: My Musical Life Story
“Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.”
“Old dreams are too beautiful the way they once were.”
Source: A Three-Year Minute
“Old Dublin City there is no doubtin'
Bates every city upon the say.
'Tis there you'd hear O'Connell spoutin'
And Lady Morgan making tay.
For 'tis the capital of the finest nation,
With charmin' pisintry upon a fruitful sod,
Fightin' like devils for conciliation,
And hatin' each other for the Love of God.”
“Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.”
Source: Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry
“Old England is our home, and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime, our flag in every sea.”
“Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.”
Source: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
“Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.”
“Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)”
“Old equals plain equals lonely.”
Source: A Frozen Woman
“Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.”
“Old-fashioned dating still exists. You’re either dating the wrong people or you are the problem.”
“Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.”
“Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.”
“Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks.”
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“Old florists never die. They just make other arrangements.”
Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around
“Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.”
“Old foliage ignores the anxious sun / since dismal winds convince each brittle branch / to hold no moment closely or too long / now shadows spread and all turns silhouette. / But then she smiles, reviving life with light, / and hope may spring eternal one more night.
(from April, Autumnal)”
Source: The Humbling and Other Poems
“Old folks are the nation.”
“Old folks had wisdom etched right there in the space between their wrinkles, and Pat wished the wrinkles themselves could speak.”
Source: Moments to Spare
“old folks is the nation.”
“Old folks’ kind of night. Hello, the wee hours. And that refers to the loo, too. The wee hours and the wonky bladders. Like a newborn.”
Source: Bloomer
“Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.”
“Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it?”
Source: The Return of the King
“Old fools are greater fools than young ones.”
“Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.”
Source: Illustrations of Universal Progress: Great Philosopher
“Old formulas don’t give new solutions.”
Source: Become a Better You
“Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!”
Source: War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946. Translated from the French by R. Howard
“Old Francoise has the common idea as regards the English--that they are mad, and liable to do the most unaccountable things at any moment.”
Source: The Murder on the Links
“Old Friend, New Adventure by Stewart Stafford
Snow crept down, surprising,
Before the sun strolled, rising.
Monochrome in palatial white,
Teeth chattering in moonlight.
Overnight, all became frozen.
A cloud nine expedition chosen.
This boy came flying out of doors,
As a cat sprang with cold paws.
A man shadowed me in the dark.
As I sculpted him in the park,
Rolling a snowball until it grew,
And a snowman stood, born anew.
With a carrot nose and coal eyes,
Gazing at me through rictus guise,
This bright curve in an unlit sky
A silent friend to thaw the lies.
Then fleeing back inside,
To hot chocolate by the fireside,
Numb, red hands slowly came alive,
The joy of life, awoke and arrived.
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.”
“Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.”
“Old friends are best.”
“Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet.”
“Old friends are memories personified.”
Source: Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series