O Quotes
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“Old is subjective. Maybe your lives are so wild or unearthly that age is an unknown transcendence.”
“Old is the tree and the fruit good,
Very old and thick the wood.
Woodman, is your courage stout?
Beware! the root is wrapped about
Your mother's heart, your father's bones;
And like the mandrake comes with groans.”
“Old is unwanted. You don't find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.”
“Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.”
“Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye,And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.”
“Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.”
Source: Honolulu
“Old ladies in wheelchairs with blankets over their legs, I don't think so...retired mermaids.”
“old ladies once again
shared their needles
and the cats weren’t the only cats
licking people”
Source: Bacchus Against the Wall
“Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.”
“Old lady failure died giving birth to twin giants named confidence & optimism, but her name lives on as the mother of success.”
Source: Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion
“Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.”
“Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.”
“Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?”
Source: Love Songs
“Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.”
Source: Cat's Eye
“Old MacDonald had a farm-until America's corporate animal factories plowed it under.”
“Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.”
“Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to remind their victims of the blood drawn.”
“Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Nelson Page
“Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.”
“Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.”
“Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.”
“Old man, everyone!! And you.. Luffy. Even though I've been good for nothing my whole life, even though I have the blood of a demon within me... You guys still loved me! Thank you so much!! - Ace's last words to his family and friends.”
“Old man, if nature is generous, why this famine? He said, Blame human nature that makes merchants hoard and Churchill take our rice for his troops while we starve.”
Source: The Covenant of Water
“Old Man River didn't flow by, it sort of boiled by, the color and consistency of weak chocolate milk. Drink some and you would probably die.”
Source: Somebody Else's Mama: A Gripping African American Family Drama – A Woman's Journey Through Loss, Loyalty, and Healing
“Old man’s gotta be the old man, fish has gotta be the fish. You gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.”
“Old man she said, "have you lived so long and forgotten so much that you don't remember anything you ever knew or felt about love?”
Source: Go Down, Moses
“Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.”
“Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!”
“Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny.”
“Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.”
“Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.”
“Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!”
“Old maps make sense to me. With their strange collections of obscure landmarks. It's how we all got around when young. An hour to Gainesville. Turn off where they have the livestock fair. Then past an airport owned by my stepdad's family. A Rotunda. Tiny Horses. Dani's house. Jonesville didn't have much back then. Rosie's Bar and a Lil' Champ. Still when we saw the sign we knew we were close. "HAY!" Screamed by a face on the side of a store. We'd all yell it as we passed. For good luck. Later that sign was stolen. This created suspicions. Some asked if we had taken it. No. But we should have.”
Source: Some Books Are Not For Sale
“Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”
“Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.”
“Old McDonald had a restaurant,
E, I, E, I, O,
And in that restaurant was some beef,
E, I, E, I, O,
With a moo moo here,
And a moo moo there.
Here a moo, there a moo,
Everywhere a moo moo cholesterol filled death trap burger.”
Source: INDIE POET - Thirty Poems From My Thirties: 2006 - 2016
“Old media companies will be further challenged in the next 15 years, as a new wave of user-generated content washes over the Internet, thanks to the increasing availability and affordability of portable, digital-based electronic devices. The cameraphones which seemed like such novelties just a few years ago will be in everyone's purse and pocket a few years from now.”
“Old memories are much like old wine... they are shelters to return to....for the log still burns in the crackle of flames...loud or soft...the story remains alive...and old wine brings the best of reminiscence ...while old alleys are best to re-visit for the love story still smells in the breeze...”
“Old memories are shelters to return to....for the log still burns in the crackle of flames...loud or soft...the story remains alive...and old wine brings the best of reminiscence ...while old alleys are best to re-visit for the love story still smells in the breeze...”
“Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.”
“Old memories make vintage wine.”
“Old memories were like land mines: dormant, forgotten, but forever deadly.”
Source: The Handyman Method
“Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.”
“Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.”
Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia
“Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.”
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.”
Source: My çntonia
“Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.”