O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Old men bade farewell to their children and went into the snow to die so their kin might live.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.”
“Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.”
“Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.”
“Old men dream dreams; young men see visions.”
Source: Caviar and Cabbage
“Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.”
“Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.”
Source: The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir
“Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.”
“Old men having an earnest conversation about college football, is there anything more American? Makes me want to VOTE and then send out some 18-year-old to die for my FREEDOM.”
Source: Powdered Saxophone Music
“Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.”
Source: The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts
“Old men make war, young men fight and die”
“Old men make wars that young men may die.”
“Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.”
“Old men need applause too.”
“Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.”
“Old men ought to be explorers.”
“Old men scribble combinations of numbers onto betting slips like mathematical equations, while others pass by, whispering the names of horses under their breaths like prayers.”
Source: Shouting The Odds: A Horse Racing Drama of Risk and Escape
“Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.”
Source: Pebble in the Sky
“Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience— a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.”
Source: Master of the Senate
“Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.”
Source: the hore's mouth
“Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
Communicated monthly, sit and stare
At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
“Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.”
“Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.”
“Old men, what are they? Fast fading the leaf, Three-footed they walk, yet frail as a child, As a dream set afloat in the daylight.”
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
“Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death.
[Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]”
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
“Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men.”
“Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.”
“Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.”
“Old money is like a stagnant pond. There's always something rotten hidden out of sight.”
Source: Afterthoughts: Wisdom for the Unreflective
“Old movies already in
progress, already passed over
twice, watched with indifference
until orchestras swell over
happy endings, new beginnings.
The images black and white,
the lie white. (Ours is a world of
heroes and of winners, and rarely
are they one in the same.)”
Source: Insomniacs, We
“Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.”
Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume
“Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.”
“Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.”
“Old must be left; New must be adopted; Life must be celebrated”
“Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town”
“Old news: Russia is carnivorous.---New news: now carnivorous beyond its borders.
Sort-of-new news: this country never stopped being carnivorous.---America's eye, more technologically avian, looks into every home.---News: we might need a different word than home.”
Source: A Life Replaced: Poems with Translations from Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir Gandelsman
“Old Newtonian physics claimed that things have an objective reality separate from our perception of them. Quantum physics, and particularly Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, reveal that, as our perception of an object changes, the object itself literally changes.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)
“Old ocean, the different species of fish that you nurture have not sworn brotherhood among themselves. Each species lives apart, on its own. The varying temperaments & conformations of each one satisfactorily explain what at first appears an anomaly. So it is with man, who has not the same motives as excuse. If a piece of land be occupied by thirty million human beings, they consider they have no obligation to concern themselves with the existence of their neighbors who are settled like roots in the adjacent patch of land. And descending from the general to the particular, each man lives like a savage in his den & rarely leaves it to visit his fellow --crouching alike in another lair. The great universal human family is a utopia worthy of the most paltry logic. Besides, from the spectacle of your fecund breasts emerges the notion of ingratitude, for one thinks immediately of those innumerable parents ungrateful enough towards the Creator to abandon the fruit of their sorry unions. I hail you old ocean!”
Source: Maldoror and the Complete Works
“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.”
“Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.”
“Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.”
Source: A Chorus of Voices: DUET stories Volume III - Adult Version
“Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native American, native born, immigrant, straight or gay - whatever; the test ought to be I believe in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow. I'm building that bridge to the 21st century. That ought to be the test.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”
“Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.”
Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman
“Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.”