Quotes About Old

My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

And intellect at Christminster is new wine in old bottles.

The creeping plants about the old manor-house were bowed with rows of heavy water drops, which had upon objects behind them the effect of minute lenses of high magnifying power.

The myth sovereign in the old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the new is that nothing means anything.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

In truth, they were all admirable scholars, the masters who taught in the cloisters of the old school — once a monastic foundation — under the guidance of a kindly, snuff-taking old head. They were, to a man, well-meaning and sweet- humoured; and they were one in the belief that knowledge and good cheer are not mutually exclusive.

they are still satisfied with the old clichés about "life-denying Buddhism," "selfish navel-gazing," and Nirvana as a sort of drugged trance.

Same old Satanic pact, only more of it.

For recessional music there's Closing Time by Semisonic, a four-chord farewell to the old century.

bearing the old Pewter Coffee-Machine venting its Puffs of Vapor

I've been in more wars for England than I can remember . . . haven't I paid enough? Risked it all for them, time after time. . . . Why must they torment an old man?

Whenever there is a breeze in the old forest, you might, for a moment, realize that the trees are singing. There, on the wind, are the voices of sugarberry and juniper and maple...

The fairies went from the world, dear, Because men's hearts grew cold: And only the eyes of children see What is hidden from the old...

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

Seto Kaiba [to Ishizu]: 'Duel Monsters' was invented in the mid-90s! There's no way it's 3,000 years old!

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

Where are you? You mean where in the house? Are you in your bedroom? Yes, I've been reading. Is this some kind of phone sex? It's just two old people talking in the dark, Addie said.

There is a dignity about the social intercourse of old Indians which reminds me of a stroll through a winter forest ." — Frederick Remington

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

Very useless things we neglect, till they become old and useless enough to be put in Museums: and so very important things we study till, when they become important enough, we ignore them -- and rightly.

Even old ideas require new investigation to underscore their continued relevance.

When dredging up an old scandal proved ineffective, zealous Democrats invented a new one.

History is full of examples of men with deep-seated grievances who embraced good causes, in part at least, to settle old scores.