Top 100 Sayings About The Old
#1. As the old Ranger adage went If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.
John Flanagan
#2. The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard.
Nicholson Baker
#3. Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.
Barbara Jordan
#4. I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.
Lefty Gomez
#5. Here was the old Professor Emerson, simmering beneath Gabriel's chastened exterior.
Sylvain Reynard
#6. The old outcast gape the darkness and said: "The lonely man is a fire without fireplace ... ".
Alexandar Tomov
#7. The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.
Pam Houston
#8. Jack turned red,"I kinda let a princess die."
His grandfather groaned. "You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right?" the old man asked.
"So I'm told.
James Riley
#9. Still in my mind the old days scenario is playing
OVER AND OVER
Deyth Banger
#10. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston S. Churchill
#11. I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
Amy Winehouse
#12. The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.
Morley Safer
#13. "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.
Charles Dickens
#14. The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward: "I hope I never see it in my lifetime," he said.
Geraldine Brooks
#15. We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.
Jay McShann
#16. I played the Piccadilly Theater with "Gypsy" and also the Old Vic, and I've done other shows in London, but not for 40 years.
Angela Lansbury
#17. You're right. I'm the old man who wasn't able to become one of those fish (however many there may have been) swimming eternally in the bluish-green light of the grotto beyond the crack in the rocks.
Kenzaburo Oe
#18. Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#19. If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
Sascha Radetsky
#20. We sometimes get lost in a bubble ... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.
Ray Winstone
#21. I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
Ed Asner
#22. There is an old and a new consciousness of the age. The old one is directed towards the individual. The new one is directed towards the universal. The struggle of the individual against the universal may be seen both in the world war and in modern art.
Theo Van Doesburg
#23. Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
Bill Mumy
#25. A person likes to think of himself in a certain way, and when something happens that makes that no longer possible, you mourn the old self. The person you thought you were.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#26. Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
Gustav Stresemann
#27. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. Henry
William Golding
#28. Every small boy wanted to be a steam engine driver when they grew up in the old days, including me. There's something very special about them - the noise, the smell, the steam coming out everywhere.
Michael Bond
#29. Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
Wilfred Owen
#30. I still love the whole history of jazz. The old things sound better than ever.
Steve Lacy
#31. The old Ivy feared parental reaction from each tiny act of defiance. But the new Ivy says, "Fuck 'em all!" a sentiment that Rachel will surely appreciate. My new motto? Be who you are and own that shit-because only with true self-acceptance comes peace and joy.
B.L. Berry
#32. And I decided then that I will never be jealous. I will never be vengeful. I won't be threatened by the old, or by the new. I'll open wide like a daisy every morning. I will make my work.
Lena Dunham
#33. Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' ... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover.
Bill Gates
#34. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
Lance Armstrong
#35. There was the old hippie-hating mad dog himself, moonlighting after a busy day of civil-rights violation, as pitchman for Channel View Estates.
Thomas Pynchon
#36. Many methods have been proposed by the emulation community in order to make the old games graphics be better displayed on modern video devices. These methods were created
Anonymous
#37. It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.
Edward Elgar
#38. I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.
Rush Limbaugh
#39. Anthony honed the razor along the old leather strop and stared intently at the metal blade as it went up and down, flipping back and forth, with the light exploding off of it like a series of quiet, hypnotic explosions.
Jonathan Douglas Duran
#40. To be honest, I wouldn't mind one last jaunt through the old orifice.
Jack O'Neill
#41. Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
#42. The way he talked sounded part Yankee, part foreign, like one of those friendly Irish policeman in the old movies: Ouch, mind you!
Barbara Kingsolver
#43. There is no harm in our criticizing foreigners, if only we would also criticize ourselves. In other words, the world might need even less of its new charity, if it had a little more of the old humility.
G.K. Chesterton
#44. Mr. Chan," Grace said as the wind whipped strands of her hair across her face. "What are you doing here?" She shouted over the howling wind as it lashed around them.
"Catering," the old man said flashing her a toothy gold grin.
Patti Roberts
#45. The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them.
Corazon Aquino
#46. In the old days, you lived in one neighborhood, you knew all your neighbors and your daughter married the guy next door. That was social and economic progress. That model is gone now. We also had a world order that was fraught but fairly stable.
Henry Louis Gates
#47. Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.
Gore Vidal
#48. I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
Abigail Washburn
#49. I think I hear someone on the stairs. The old wooden boards creak like crazy, and I hear the tell-tale sound of someone walking up the stairs. My heart is practically in my throat now. Then I hear the familiar sound of my old mahogany bedroom door swinging slowly open on squeaky hinges.
April Wilson
#51. I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.
Joe Perry
#52. If you desire the magical powers that led the 808 Tanuki, which are trapped in the old cave of Kumayama, say the words, Look into others' heart of hearts with your own heart to be destined to lead those who are not human.
Hiroshi Shiibashi
#53. I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Neale Donald Walsch
#54. Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.
George R R Martin
#55. And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#57. The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.
Jim Cymbala
#58. You will do more harm than good by attempting to supplant old dogmas and customs with new dogmas. It will be the same in the end except that the old is less militant, less dangerous than a new order imposed by enthusiasts.
Gore Vidal
#59. I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.
William Ivey Long
#60. ...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all so delightfully precarious and primitive. Amateurish trenches and rough and ready life, which to my mind gave this war what it sadly needs - a touch of romance.
Bruce Bairnsfather
#61. Admittedly, it's a little crazy. Grand, infinite God taking on the squalling form of a human baby boy. It's what some of the old-timers call a scandal, the scandal of the Gospel. But it is also the whole point.
Lauren F. Winner
#62. Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Federica Montseny
#63. It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.
Kirby Wright
#65. My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.
Dalton McGuinty
#66. The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
Wallace Stevens
#67. Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to life or discard life just as life happens to promise great pleasure or pain.
Jack London
#68. We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
James Oppenheim
#69. Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints.
Norman Jewison
#70. Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do so
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#71. And shall God be present in creation, ruling over all, and not in grace? Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? Look at Providence! Who knoweth not that not a sparrow falleth to the ground without your Father?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds.
If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for the sound of the delivery man hitting a cylinder with a piece of metal in the street.
Colm Toibin
#73. I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.
Robinson Jeffers
#74. In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
#75. For recessional music there's "Closing Time" by Semisonic, a four-chord farewell to the old century.
Thomas Pynchon
#76. The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
May Sarton
#78. We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.
Jean Anouilh
#79. Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland
Nick Cole
#80. Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine.
Unfortunately, these principles began to lose their footing in the late 1800s, when building practices shifted toward more commercial technologies.
Shannon Taylor Scarlett
#81. We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,' Tavis reflected. 'Together, we need to build something that's never existed before - a global network of light.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#82. The best thing for soothing a disappointed mind is oxygen. A couple of deep inhalations of the old "O" rejuvenates every cell in the body.
Alan Bradley
#83. And, let me compliment your fashionable attire, my friend. Is naked the new black?" said Rodrigo. Apparently, the two men could see each other. That figures; all monsters can see in dark. "I am uncertain of what happened to the old black while I have been indisposed," Niccolo replied flatly.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#84. Those who are fascinated by evil all too easily fall pray to it themselves [said the old priest at the Mission Dolores].
Dianne Day
#85. Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?
Ariel Levy
#86. Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Aeschylus
#87. I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee bar - little places that served breakfast, lunch and dinner and have pretty much disappeared.
Tom Douglas
#88. If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
Christian De Duve
#89. The two best interview subjects are children under 10 and people over 70 for the same reason: they say the first thing that comes to their mind. The children don't know what they're saying and the old folks don't care.
Art Linkletter
#90. There was not one way of salvation in Israel and another way in the new covenant (Christian) community. Justification is by faith now; justification was by faith back then. The meritorious ground of salvation in the Old Testament was the merit of Christ, not the merit of bulls and goats.
R.C. Sproul
#91. Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Rob Bell
#92. We all know the old expression, "I'll work my thoughts out on paper." There's something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does. That is why we must have more writing in the schools, more writing in all subjects, not just in English classes.
David McCullough
#93. On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.
Harry S. Truman
#94. He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do.
Madeleine Thien
#95. THE TROUBLE with the old boy network is you can never be really sure whether it's switched on or not and whether it's operating in your interest or some other old boy's.
Ben Aaronovitch
#96. Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.
Sterling W. Sill
#97. Faced with parts of ourselves that we do not recognize, would like perhaps not to recognize, we deny the kinship, and often lean away from the new and into the old, accentuating the familiar qualities that complement the strange new ones.
Thomas Van Nortwick
#98. The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.
David Jeremiah
#99. Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears.
David Arnold
#100. I had a thought for no one's but your ears; / That you were beautiful, and that I strove / To love you in the old high way of love;
W.B.Yeats
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