- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old Quotes
Old age, old habits, and old traditions worth keeping.
This set uses 'old' loosely, from feeling worn down by constant criticism in a creative career to impatience with distractions that don't matter anymore. For quotes centered on the number itself, see Age quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do quite like sightseeing. I like churches, museums, galleries and all that stuff. I love the smell of a church in Italy or the smell of an old greasy spoon somewhere. I like markets and little funny shops in the backstreets of Florence.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unethical to promote old songs sung by new artistes, and the government should ban these things.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was five years old, when my mom was still alive, she would just call me. And we would listen to the radio with Barbra Streisand and Karen Carpenter, and she would ask me to sing with her.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020