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What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?
Experience, old people's experience. — Isak Dinesen

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. — Samuel Woodworth

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh? — Aristophanes

Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; — Anonymous

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator. — Cyril Connolly

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. — Plutarch

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. — John Burroughs

As we move further away I can hear the old lady say, "Remember when we were like that, Ed?" To which the old man replies, "My memory is not that good. — Anna Bloom

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like. — Amy Poehler

True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time. — Muriel Barbery

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made. — Joseph Devlin

BOTOLPHS (pl.n) Huge benign tumours which archdeacons and old chemistry teachers affect to wear on the sides of their noses. — Douglas Adams

But I can't stay here for a week!"
"You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult. — A.A. Milne

This was that Earth of which we have heard, made out of Chaos and Old Night. — Henry David Thoreau

The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which they are not. — L. Todd Rose

My mother worked in the old Minsky's troupe, which toured the country in the golden age of burlesque theatre. — Seymour Cassel

The young remember most deeply ... When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood which can be summoned most clearly. — Dan Simmons

I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old. — Caroline Norton

That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct. — Louisa May Alcott

The old age old story of Yin & Yang ... Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you? — Timothy Pina

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's. — Deepak Chopra

Out past the weekly glimpsed windows, out past the street, lived the world, which had, Old Mrs. Karafilis knew, been dying for years. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens. — Thomas Hughes

I stayed sober for a year and a half, which is like dog years to a 25-year-old. I — Sarah Hepola

So I have gone all the way around Robin Hood's barn to arrive at the old platitudes, which I guess is the process of growing up. — Herman Wouk

The Adlers were diminishing. They had begun to look like one of those families in which no one got to be very old. — Paul Auster

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. — Fisher Ames

old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern — Thomas Hardy

I was changing my head. It feels good to have the old one back on. And now I have a spare, which is nice. — Derek Landy

For it is the young tree grown out of the old root which shall illuminate what the old tree has been in its wonders. — Jakob Bohme

He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. — Mark Haddon

My path had led me at that time into a new life, which had now grown old and is dead — Hermann Hesse

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick. — Joni Mitchell

That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability. — Ernest Holmes

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it. — Charles Kingsley

I could not have told you how old she was, which was one of the things about girls I had begun to hate. — Neil Gaiman

Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new form — Alvar Aalto

I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me. — Vanessa Paradis

How I have walked ... day after day, and all alone, to see if there was not something among the old things which was new! — Thomas Cole

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. — William Pfaff

That's the purpose of old age ... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did. — Colleen McCullough

It is a very pretty observation of old Isaac Ambrose that the gum which exudes from the tree without cutting is always the best. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. — Dan Brown

He drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. — Samuel Johnson

It was an old fashioned house
the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. — Susanna Clarke

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting. — Woody Allen

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around. — Vint Cerf

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out. — Lu Xun

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years. — Mark Twain

I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something. — John Christopher

Her face looked like a fruit from which all the juice had been sucked. — Brian Herbert

The U.S. Senate - an old scow which doesn't move very fast, but never sinks. — Everett Dirksen

There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned. — Carlos Fuentes

Many of our flaws are old emotional defenses which may fade away when we're loved in spite of them. — Rick Cormier

Theodora glared at me, but Mrs. Murphy Sallis gave me a brief smile and offered me her hand, which was as smooth and soft as old lettuce. — Lemony Snicket

We do not need to end Medicare. We don't need to throw people who are younger than 55 years old to the wolves which is what we do. — Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. — Henry David Thoreau

My older son who is, I think, here tonight, is forty-one years old. Which is odd because so am I. — Robert B. Parker

Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was. — Robert Walpole

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. — Robertson Davies

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering. — Mary Barra

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. — Aldous Huxley

The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. — Alfred Kreymborg

I have an easy tendency to stumble and fall, which is not a good thing in an 84-year-old guy, so when I brush my teeth, then I do balancing exercises. — Walter Mischel

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain. — Jean De La Fontaine

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. — Chinua Achebe

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth! — Gil Gerard

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be ...
Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
I'm old. — Sophie Kinsella

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular. — B. Carroll Reece

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them. — Virginia Woolf

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda. — Roger Scruton

I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always Scooby-Doo. — Rhys Darby

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form. — Andre Maurois

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. — Philip Sidney

No one day is like another,each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars are created. — Paulo Coelho

Learning is the ecstasy of life which keeps our hearts young and our minds sharp. — Debasish Mridha

We headed toward the creepy old slaughterhouse full of dangerous beings. Which ... pretty much tells you what kind of day I was having, right there. — Jim Butcher

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later: — Bram Stoker

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years. — Sebastian Bach

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes. — Leo Tolstoy

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. — James Russell Lowell

grow old with me. the best is yet to be.
the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. — Henry Miller

The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, — H.P. Lovecraft

The Beauty which old Greece or RomeSung, painted, wrought, lies close at home. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. — Henry David Thoreau

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.' — Katy Perry

To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur. — Alfred Russel Wallace

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track. — Bill Bixby

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated
old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes

An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. — Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance. — John B. S. Haldane

To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention. — Lionel Shriver

I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think. — Will Leitch

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams

Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? — Thomm Quackenbush