Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.
I've gotten crankier in my old age.
To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
November is usually such a disagreeable month...as if the year had suddenly found out that she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it. This year is growing old gracefully...just like a stately old lady who knows she can be cha...
Old love does not rust.
All times are good when old.
Old age is the verdict of life.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
A wise man did not pour wildfire on a brazier. Instead he poured a fresh cup of wine.
I have no idea what time it is in London, and have had too much wine to bother with the math to figure it out.
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.
I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm." Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.
Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.
Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.
You are so beautiful, I could eat you,” he said. And it was true. Her smile was as intoxicating as the wine. And he could eat her.
What's all this hiding happiness and wine away? I've lined up with the libertines now, come what may.
Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.
This was all horribly wrong. This was red wine with fish. This was a man wearing a dinner jacket and brown shoes. This was as wrong as things get.
I let wine breathe. And I hold my breathe, so it can get all the air.
There’s a new wine I want to try. I heard about it through the grapevine.
