Quotes of: Old-adage Keyword

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

Something Borrowed

Shocked my old friend from China, Deja Vu, when I turned up at his door without notice.

Sans Destination

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Servant As Leader

You see yourself as if old and wise. I see you really miss your childhood.

Master of Stupidity

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ? Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

Master of Stupidity

And the testicles of the fathers hang down like old lace

New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985

Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.

The Normal Christian Life

The decrease in the number of killings doesn’t make any difference if the society has to sleep with the ghosts of the old devil.

The Naked Power

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Nonrequired Reading

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Norwegian Wood

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

Lark Rise to Candleford

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me.

The Long Goodbye

Your spirit nourishes from your old God and prophet, but mine nourishes from wisdom and conscience.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

My Antonia

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Madame Bovary

Revolution is simple. It's like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

What was the point of starting a new life if she did everything the same as her old one?

Summer Lovin'

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

The Ships of Merior

Call me archaic, but I like making money the old-fashioned way—through prostitution.

Sleepwalking is restercise

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

The Shockwave Rider

I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother.

The Shop on Blossom Street