What is new is pleasing and what is old is satisfying.
The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel.
An old rat won't go into the trap.
The young may die, the old must.
A surgeon should be young a physician old.
An old broom knows the corners of the house.
An old cat likes young mice.
An old enemy never becomes a friend.
All old sayings have something in them.
As the old cock crows the young cock learns.
The old pipe gives the sweetest smoke.
An old chicken makes tasty soup.
Old oxen like soft grass.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Old sins cast long shadows.
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
These are old words, old stories and we are not here to blindly repeat them. They are not law. They are power, nourishment. There is a river of voices coming out of the past, resonating in the telling of the old stories...We are grounded in its power...
I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved and miss Johnny Cash. I miss my old buddy Johnny Paycheck, who happens to be buried in an area of the cemetery that I bought f...
