O Quotes
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“Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.”
Source: The only thing that matters: bringing the power of the customer into the center of your business
“old pear tree starlings announce harvest time”
“Old people are attached to many irrelevant things because the relevant things don't value them.”
“Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.”
“Old people are often impatient, but for what?”
“Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!”
“Old people die not because no one cared for them but because someone they expected care from did not bother.”
Source: Tall Man Small Shadow
“Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.”
“Old people go to the polls because they can't get erections, young people stay home, do drugs and have sex.”
“Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.”
“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”
“Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.”
“Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.”
“Old people they lose their sex life and that's not a good time. That's why they get divorced all the time.”
“Old people think young people haven't learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.”
“Old people were forever telling her that they had been young once, but it was always hard for her to imagine. Especially when it seemed that they had forgotten what it was really like to be young. They usually spoke in terms of carefree swanning about without obligations, seeming to forget all the rules, the confusion, and the sheer frustration of trying to make sense of adults.”
Source: THEM THAT ASK NO QUESTIONS: A Sussex Steampunk Tale
“Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.”
Source: The Inland Island
“Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.”
“Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.”
Source: Vintage Cather
“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”
“Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.”
“Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.”
“Old philosophy textbooks looked down at her, ghost furnishings from her university days, when life still had possibility. A yucca plant and three tiny, squat potted cacti. She imagined being a non-sentient life form sitting in a pot all day was probably an easier existence.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.”
“Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say.”
Source: All the Names
“Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations”
Source: Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy and Character and Opinion in the United States: And Character and Opinion in the United States
“Old politicians chew on wisdom past,
And totter on in business to the last.”
“Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.”
Source: The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge
“Old pond, frog jumps in - plop.”
“Old pond, leap-splash - a frog.”
“Old Porteous’s mind, I thought, probably stopped working at about the time of the Russo-Japanese war. And it’s a ghastly thing that nearly all the decent people, the people who don’t want to go round smashing faces in with spanners, are like that. They’re decent, but their minds have stopped. They can’t defend themselves against what’s coming to them, because they can’t see it, even when it’s under their noses.”
Source: Coming Up for Air
“Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it.
[Old praise dies unless you feed it.]”
“Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.”
“Old radicals never changed. They just got law degrees and updated their bag of tricks.”
Source: Fancy Pants
“Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.”
“Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.”
“Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.”
Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke
“Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.”
“Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.”
“Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.”
“Old saws have no teeth.”
Source: Trust
“Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.”
“Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.”
“Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays.”
“Old school love and the hand-written love letters still hold the greatest power.
- From (The Awakening)”
“Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato”
“Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.”
Source: The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: Accurately Revised ... Adorned with Copper-plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory
“Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.”
Source: The Lucifer Gospel