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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible. — Elena Ferrante

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because 'these are the good old days' now. — Clare Boothe Luce

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest. — Tim Winton

Though a new picture gives you a picture of how old you are, when you see the old pictures, you remember the young you! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery. — Martin Jackson

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

Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how
many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. — Madame De Stael

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. — Charles Lamb

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet. — Luther Vandross

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

In the old days rank was not important - The complete opposite of today. You just trained — Higa Yuchoku

The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it. — William Monahan

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out. — Jimi Hendrix

Olden days cannot be reversed even with the strongest incantation, but fresh days could be invoked to be fruitful in order to stop old fruitless years — Michael Bassey Johnson

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days. — X.J. Kennedy

The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over. — Katy B

When you think of the good old days, think one word: dentistry. — P. J. O'Rourke

And I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And magnificently we will fold into the mystic — Van Morrison

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old. — George Sand

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really. — Nick Lowe

Come near; I would, before my time to go,
Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days. — William Butler Yeats

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. — Jerome K. Jerome

When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. — Edvard Grieg

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days. — Christopher Poole

The good old days needed a lot of improvement. People aren't the only things that get better with age. — David Levithan

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems. — Richard Morris

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. — Charles Mackay

Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded. — Mavis Gallant

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. — Margaret Mitchell

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days. — Alan Gibbons

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old, — Chuck Berry

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now. — Margaret Chan

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor ... I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days. — Jack Johnson

He should have told Vlad that in the old days a collection of poems could change your life, but a single poem could also cost the life of its author. — Andrei Makine

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals. — Robert Orben

Breezy days
deserve the union
of two old friends. — Sanober Khan

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers. — Jason Alexander

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the
good old days when we wished we were dead. — Samuel Beckett

We'll miss all of these.
Yes ... we'll miss the days of old, ways of doing things,
when we've been able to do everything, in the future. — Toba Beta

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. — Confucius

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell. — Gilbert Hernandez

my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus — Karen Marie Moning

As your product evolves, adding new features becomes as easy as it was in the good old days of greenfield development. — Scott Millett

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things. — Terry Jones

In the old days, advertisers ventured on their own opinions. The few guess right, the many wrong. Those were the time of advertising disaster — Claude C. Hopkins

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television. — Michael Ramsey

What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons. — C.T. Phipps

The old life is gone, my days are new,
but time is still a mystery
of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance.
- Rosa — Margarita Engle

[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old. — Mary McGrory

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood. — G.K. Chesterton

Mourning the old glad days before they knew
What evil things the heart of man could dream, and dreaming do. — Oscar Wilde

Can I fetch you something, madam? A cup of tea?'
In the old days she'd have been 'miss' and he'd have offered her a cocktail. — Sara Sheridan

Parents take far too much notice of their children these days. Bring back the good old days of benign indifference, I reckon. — Liane Moriarty

I sometimes wish for the old days when audiences used to be ignorant of world cinema and our inspired works were seen as originals. — Yashvir Dalaya

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. — Oscar Wilde

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ... — Kellie Elmore

Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it. — Howie Carr

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days. — Steffi Graf