O Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with O. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Old women should not seek to be perfumed.”
“Old women with mobile phones look wrong.”
“Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine to drink, and old friends to converse with.”
“Old words are reborn with new faces.”
Source: Killosophy
“Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die”
“Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you.”
Source: rhymes of rolling stone
“Old, yet beloved to my family,
the cart is marked with the prints
and sweat of our ancestors,
who began our journeys in trade.
I carry our world in this cart,
wares we have taken ages to create.
Foraging through earth and trees
to source our natural ingredients.
Wares I push with deep pride,
along the sloping, uneven terrain.
I can travel further with the cart
and expand my avenues for trade.”
Source: Adira and the Dark Horse
“OLD YOUTHFUL [sneezing]. But sir, it’s not fair. Where’s the justice…
BARTHOLO. Justice! Ignorant clods like you can go on and on about justice. But I’m your master and that means I’m always right!
OLD YOUTHFUL [sneezing]. But if a thing is true…
BARTHOLO. If something’s true! If I don’t want a thing to be true, it isn’t true by my say-so. If you let any Tom, Dick, or Harry be right, you’d soon see what’s to become of authority and discipline!”
Source: The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
“Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.”
“Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.”
“Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.”
“OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary
“Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.”
“Old, that's an affront no woman can well bear.”
Source: Don Quixote
“Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.”
Source: The Heart of William James
“Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.”
Source: The Complete Angler; Or, Comtemplative Man's Recreation: With Lives of the Authors, and Notes
“Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.”
Source: Newer Ideals of Peace
“Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world.”
“Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.”
“Old. A viable die-able age.”
“OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.”
“Oldboy makes us feel a part of something bigger than ourselves. It's a grand, gritty, indelible experience, the sort of picture that mimics great literature in the way it envelops you in a well-told story while also evoking subtle but strong gradations of emotion.”
“Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.”
Source: The Input Hypothesis: Issues and Implications
“Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.”
“Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.”
“Older age can be challenging for LGBTQ people when living an independent life becomes more difficult. Having lived in a same-sex relationship for many years there are limited choices about living in a retirement home where some people may feel that they have to supress their sexuality in order to appease others. I hear less these days about this aspect of LGBT life, being forced back into the closet in order to live in close proximity to others, that can cause depression particularly where there may be no close relatives or friends having lived a long life”
Source: Out On An Island
“Older and stronger firstborns dominate their younger brothers and sisters and thus tend to like the world the way it is. The siblings who follow have a harder time competing with the firstborn and consequently rebel against the status quo, developing a “revolutionary personality.” Firstborns are also more introverted and inflexible since they need less support. By contrast, laterborns are more extroverted and agreeable since they need assistance from others to compete with firstborns.”
“Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.”
“Older animals are the best because, number one, a majority of the time, they are already house-trained; number two, you know exactly what kind of personality you are going to be getting with that animal; and number three, they are already full size, so no need to wonder how big they are going to get.”
“Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.”
“Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like 'man kharam' which means “I'm an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that they would have to promise never to repeat it to anyone. They would then spend all of recess running around yelling “I'm an idiot! I'm an idiot!”. I never told them the truth. I figured someday, somebody would”
Source: Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
“Older, but no wiser. Alas, our dreams continue to haunt us.”
Source: Gretel and the Dark
“Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.”
“Older drunks tend to live in the past, mainly because they are destroying the present, and have little care for the future.”
“Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.”
“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.”
“Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when older people told me that Run-D.M.C. was jungle music or that it was not music at all. Or that LL Cool J was not art.”
“Older generations, Pip said disapprovingly, they just don't understand the allure of pyjamas. So, what did you want to show us?”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Blood
“Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They’ve already lived their lives.”
Source: Our Young Man
“Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.”
“Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.”
“Older ladies are good as well, you know.”
“Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. Ive never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.”
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
“Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.”
“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.”
“Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.”
“Older patients who live alone can become depressed.”
“Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms