Quotes About Old

Rumors are like rain through an old roof. The effort of finding the source is greater than the cost of a new roof.

My cat seeking a bed on the tiled floor Shakes his thin, mangy body ceaselessly; The soul of an old poet wanders in the rain-pipe With the sad voice of a shivering ghost.

l'âme d'un vieux poëte erre dans la gouttière avé la triste voix d'un fantôme frileux

Ich bin ein alter Witz, und schlafe ein.

it's like an old movie-- 35 years old-- that nobody ever saw or understood but me and even though the critics would dub it ordinary i like it very much.

History is a foreign country, and the old are unwilling emigrants, tired out by the constant travel.

I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.

Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

My diagnosis, he said for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.

Vanità scriverà qui riposa il vecchio Jack.

And who is this Maître Carrefour?" "Hm? Oh, that's our old friend Mate Care-For. Thatch just pronounces it right. It means master of the crossroads. Master of different possibilities, in other words—of chance.

And for the first time in five years, Pellaeon finally knew in the deepest level of his being that the old Empire was gone. The new Empire, with Grand Admiral Thrawn at its head, had been born.

There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya

GRU. O riddle for the executioner [4], as I guess it will turn out; they'll be so pinking you with goads, as you carry your gibbet [5] along the streets one day, as soon as ever the old gentleman returns here.

Not that is was her job, but she took a few minutes to tidy up while she waited for Aimee. She knew how depressing it could be to wake up in a messy house, how it could make you feel like the new day was already old.

As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

Since moving to New York, she had been gradually abandoning her old ideas about the nobility of suffering.

Outside, the rains had come, the rains that like a blizzard of guppies would pelt the creaky old house until spring. There is no weeping that can compete with the northwest rains.

They were, in fact and at last, free. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes -- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.

The chief shortcoming of the old public services was the restrictive regulations and facilities—one-size-fits-all—with

There are no shy women,"announced the count. "The modest way they cast thier eyes down merely his their naivety." I was fast coming to the conclusion that there was no need to feel afraid of him. He was only a self-satisfied old git who hated women and liked the sound of his own voice.