O Quotes
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“Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?”
“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse
“Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.”
“Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.”
“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.”
“Old friends. She felt a hungry nostalgia for those times, the boxset Sundays, the nights getting ready together, the night buses home. Those days slipped past so quickly, while you were planning a future that never turned out the way you expected.”
Source: Where The Light Gets In
“Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
“Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace
“Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.”
“Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!”
“Old Glory in her majesty has so many promises in her wave that we have no choice but to keeping pledging and waving right back!”
“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”
Source: The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition
“Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.”
“Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.”
Source: Essays, English and American
“Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.”
“Old goodbyes can lead to new hellos.”
“Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.”
Source: John Donne: The Major Works
“old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.”
Source: Dark Secrets: No Time to Die & The Deep End of Fear
“Old guys can still do fun things.”
“old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!”
Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day
“Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.”
“Old habits are strong and jealous.”
Source: Becoming a Writer
“Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.”
“Old habits die hard, I guess. If you dont kick them, they kick you.”
“Old habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.”
“Old habits stay longer than old scents, eh? - Yellowfang”
Source: Into the Wild
“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”
“Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.”
“Old, he included
himself in his scorn for those who
young want the opposite of this earth
then settle
for more of it.”
“Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.”
Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
“Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.”
“Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments.”
Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)
“Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever
Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.”
Source: Myth and Romance
“Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!”
“Old houses make funny noises. One time I stayed in a decaying place that made sounds like John Waite's 1984 radio hit "Missing You." Personally, I liked it, but the 13 ducks I was sharing a bathtub with didn't agree, so they made me take them to the luxury hotel known as Motel 6.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.”
Source: The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure
“Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.”
“Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.”
“Old Hubert must have had a premonition of his squalid demise. In October he said to me, ‘Forty-two years I’ve had this place. I’d really like to go back home, but I ain’t got the energy since my old girl died. And I can’t sell it the way it is now. But anyway before I hang my hat up I’d be curious to know what’s in that third cellar of mine.’
The third cellar has been walled up by order of the civil defence authorities after the floods of 1910. A double barrier of cemented bricks prevents the rising waters from invading the upper floors when flooding occurs. In the event of storms or blocked drains, the cellar acts as a regulatory overflow.
The weather was fine: no risk of drowning or any sudden emergency. There were five of us: Hubert, Gerard the painter, two regulars and myself. Old Marteau, the local builder, was upstairs with his gear, ready to repair the damage. We made a hole.
Our exploration took us sixty metres down a laboriously-faced vaulted corridor (it must have been an old thoroughfare). We were wading through a disgusting sludge. At the far
end, an impassable barrier of iron bars. The corridor continued beyond it, plunging downwards. In short, it was a kind of drain-trap.
That’s all. Nothing else. Disappointed, we retraced our steps. Old Hubert scanned the walls with his electric torch. Look! An opening. No, an alcove, with some wooden object that looks like a black statuette. I pick the thing up: it’s easily removable. I stick it under my arm. I told Hubert, ‘It’s of no interest. . .’ and kept this treasure for myself.
I gazed at it for hours on end, in private. So my deductions, my hunches were not mistaken: the Bièvre-Seine confluence was once the site where sorcerers and satanists must surely have gathered. And this kind of primitive magic, which the blacks of Central Africa practise today, was known here several centuries ago. The statuette had miraculously survived the onslaught of time: the well-known virtues of the waters of the Bièvre, so rich in tannin, had protected the wood from rotting, actually hardened, almost fossilized it. The object answered a purpose that was anything but aesthetic. Crudely carved, probably from heart of oak. The legs were slightly set apart, the arms detached from the body. No indication of gender. Four nails set in a triangle were planted in its chest. Two of them, corroded with rust, broke off at the wood’s surface all on their own. There was a spike sunk in each eye. The skull, like a salt cellar, had twenty-four holes in which little tufts of brown hair had been planted, fixed in place with wax, of which there were still some vestiges. I’ve kept quiet about my find. I’m biding my time.”
Source: Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City
“Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.”
“Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.”
“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Old ideas die hard. We've had thousands of years of women having almost no rights. Parts of the world are in a struggle toward very basic human rights for women, and most of the world isn't even there yet. And it's going to take a long time to change these attitudes.”
“Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.”
“Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.”
Source: The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays in Contemporary Thought
“Old incompetence is incompetence still.”
Source: The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth
“Old is always fifteen years from now.”
Source: Time Flies
“Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.”
“Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift