Quotes of: Old-house Keyword

The young may die, the old must.

Dutch

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

French

An old cat likes young mice.

Greek

An old enemy never becomes a friend.

Greek

All old sayings have something in them.

Icelandic

As the old cock crows the young cock learns.

Irish

The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.

Irish

An old chicken makes tasty soup.

Monacan

Old oxen like soft grass.

Myanmar

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Traditional

Old sins cast long shadows.

Traditional

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Turkish

In Morocco," said Osman, "word spreads like a fire tearing through the depths of Hell.

The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca

We're all entitled to our different likes and dislikes. Imagine the world if we all liked the same things.

Chase Tinker and the House of Magic

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

The Cider House Rules

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

The Cider House Rules

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Einstein's Beach House: Stories

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)

Glass Houses

The aunts’ conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.

The House of Aunts