Baka: They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss. Moses: Are you a master builder or a master butcher? Baka: If we stop moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city would ne...
Terry Fields: Pardon me, sir, but I lost my I.D. in... in a flood and I'd like to get some Old Harper, hard stuff. Would you mind buying a bottle for me? Bum at Liquor Store: Why certainly! I lost my wife, too - her name wasn't Idy, though, and it wa...
Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn on...
There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.
They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
I think old people should just be old and go away.
I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.
There are no old friendships in business.
My Bubbie lived to 104, which is probably a little too old to consider a ripe old age, because she had already started to turn. I still say she died young.
The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.
Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.
