Old One Quotes (page 5)

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• lies
• new
• old

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. John Maynard Keynes

• people
• new
• old

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. Charles Kettering

• friend
• new friends
• friends

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one. Tom Bodett

• book
• reading
• new

When a new book is published, read an old one. Samuel Rogers

• great
• old
• people change

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• mind
• mindfulness
• you me

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not. Doris Roberts

• good
• people
• different

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers. John Shelton Reed

• manly
• respect
• new

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one. Douglas Jerrold

• new
• society
• old

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. Herbert Read

• experience
• new
• old

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• real
• age
• song

One thing I could never stand was to see a filthy dirty old drunky howling away at the filthy songs of his fathers and going blurp blurp in between as it might be a filthy old orchestra in his stinking rotten guts; I could never stand to see anyone like that. whatever his age might be, but more especially when he was real old like this one was. Anthony Burgess

• sunset
• night
• crying

One night between sunset and river On the old bridge we stood, you and I. Will you ever forget it, I queried, - That particular swift that went by? And you answered, so earnestly: Never! And what sobs made us suddenly shiver, What a cry life emitted in flight! Till we die, till tomorrow, for ever, You and I on the old bridge one night. Vladimir Nabokov

• time
• moving
• appearance

One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate. Franz Kafka

• personal
• kids
• sister

One sister for sale, One sister for sale, One crying and spying young sister for sale I'm really not kidding so who'll start the bidding Do I hear a dollar? A nickle? A penny? Oh isnt there isnt there isnt there any One person who will buy this sister for sale This crying spying old young sister for sale. Shel Silverstein

• new
• hand
• lost

One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. Alas! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid, which burnt my tongue so that I was forced to spit the beetle out, which was lost, as was the third one. Charles Darwin