Quotes of: Old-house Keyword

An old dog can't get used to chains.

Russian

The coat is quite new, only the holes are old.

Russian

To keep a new friend, never break with the old.

Russian

No stake ever grew old with the bark on.

South African

Better to be off with the old love before we be on with the new.

Scottish

It is the wandering dog that finds the old bone.

Sierra Leonean

If you would live healthy, be old early.

Spanish

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.

Traditional

True love never grows old.

Traditional

Never trust overmuch to a new friend or an old enemy.

Welsh

Every wise woman builds her house: but the fool plucks it down with her hands. Proverbs 14.-1

Biblical

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank A. Clark

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

Geoffrey Chaucer

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

Hesketh Pearson

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

James Thurber

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Tony Benn

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

Wilfred Owen