Quotes on Old Things

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things.

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

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

She watched the sun bleed water out of the icicle. Warm and cold working together to make an icicle. Warm and cold anger working together to make a fury, a fury worthy enough to use as a weapon against the old things that still needed fighting.

Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.