Quotes About Old

Californians are not so precious about their antiques, not so nervous about what others will think if they mix classic with modern, old with new.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.

You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

I firmly believe Americans are far better off under tax reform than they ever were sticking with this old, messed up, outdated tax code.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village.

Tho was Buffalo Bill Cody? Most people know, at the very least, that he was a hero of the Old West, like Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, and

es una vieja máxima de las escuelas / que la adulación es el alimento de los tontos».

Now and then I try to revive the old blood with Cheryl the way a miser sticks dead batteries in the radio just to see if a miracle has transpired . . .

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

The trouble that most of us find with the modern matched sets of clubs is that they don't really seem to know any more about the game than the old ones did.

I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused, And dusty crumbling of romance!

This game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court.

old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs.

That had the irritating sound of an old saying.

Do you remember when we took that tame sport called swords and learned to kill with it, as the old volumes said men once had?

The past was a field of embers and ash, an old Saldaean proverb said, the remnants of the fire that was the present.

Las viejas barreras se debilitan. Nuestro tiempo está impregnado de disolución y cambio. Las cosas antiguas vuelven a manifestarse y otras nuevas tienen nacimiento. Tal vez vivamos lo bastante para ver el fin de una era.» Se estremeció.

I am a student of history," she said at last, "a collector of old stories.

Pretty mountains, pretty river, bumpy but pleasant tar road... old buildings, old people on a front porch... strange how old, obsolete buildings and plants and mills, the technology of fifty and a hundred years ago, always seem to look so much better than the new stuff.

It was as though our invaders had passed the word through the galaxies: SEE OLD EARTH NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT.