Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
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FRANCIS BACON Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trus...
FRANCIS BACON Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to tr...
ALONSO OF ARAGON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,
and old authors to read.
ATHENAEUS Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
ATHENAEUS Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Old wine and friends improve with age.
ITALIAN PROVERB I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash white...
JOHN WEBSTER I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but ...
YANN MARTEL Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN Pretty wife, old wine - many friends
BULGARIAN PROVERB I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
LEO ROSTEN Cherish youth, but trust old age.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Old age ain't no place for sissies.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
TINA TURNER I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
DANA CARVEY Education is the best provision for old age.
ARISTOTLE What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
OLD EPITAPH When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.
OLD RHYME If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way
No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.
OLD RHYME I'd just as soon a beggar as king,
And the reason I'll tell you for why;
A king cannot swagger...
OLD SONG This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.
[Fr., Cet animal est tres mechant;...
OLD SONG A rainbow in the morning
Is the Shepherd's warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the Shephe...
OLD RHYME It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is
the space between the bars that hol...
OLD SAYING There's a skin without and a skin within,
A covering skin and a lining skin,
But the skin with...
OLD SONG When Bryan O'Lynn had no shirt to put on,
He took him a sheep skin to make him a' one.
"With t...
OLD SONG Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it.
OLD SAYING A leap year
Is never a good sheep year.
OLD SAYING There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends
forsake us.
OLD SAYING Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
OLD TESTAMENT Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all
evils.
[Lat., Gula plures occidit q...
OLD SONG The poor man will praise it so hath he good cause,
That all the year eats neither partridge not qu...
OLD SONG In good King Charles's golden days
When royalty no harm meant,
A zealous high-churchman was I,...
OLD SONG Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'...
OLD SONG When this old cap was new
'Tis since two hundred years.
OLD SONG Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue ...
OLD SONG As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested
in adversity.
OLD SONG Ants will not go to an empty granary, and friends will not visit
us when our wealth is gone.
OLD SONG An injury may prove a blessing.
OLD SONG Accursed poison lies hid beneath sweet honey.
OLD SONG A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man
sickens.
OLD SONG A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.
OLD SONG A gift in time of need is most acceptable.
OLD SONG A credulous thing is love.
OLD SONG A burthen cheerfully borne becomes light.
OLD SONG A bitter drug oft brings relief.
OLD SONG Old soldiers never die;
They fade away!
OLD SONG St. George he was for England; St. Dennis was for France.
Sing, "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
OLD SONG A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets
journeys on in safety.
OLD SONG Always keep your hook in the water: where you least expect one,
the fish will be found.
OLD SONG As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy
months will you have.
OLD SAYING Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.]
OLD SAYING Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us
and ours.
And when we and ours ...
OLD SAYING Here's a health to all those that we love,
Here's a health to all those that love us,
Here's a...
OLD SAYING A wicked book cannot repent.
OLD PROVERB Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.
RICHARD ENGEL I will never give in to old age until I become old
TINA TURNER Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
GEORGE HERBERT Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
JOHN SELDEN I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
DANA CARVEY I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him:
a new friend is as new wine; when...
BIBLE Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when i...
BIBLE Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him. A new friend is a new wine; when if...
BIBLE Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.
MASON COOLEY Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don...
PAUL HENDERSON Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
ARISTOTLE Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our t...
ROBERT BROWNING Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old f...
MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly
old men, not to age itself.
UNKNOWN Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out o...
SARAH ORNE JEWETT Have you ever stopped to think? We're old enough to go to war...but we ain't old enough to drink.
TUPAC SHAKUR I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I beli...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I've always wanted to eat surrounded by my 'old friends' - books that I've read.
JOE HALE My four-year-old daughter is soon going to be old enough to look at the children's books upstairs. I...
JENNIFER DEER Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.
DONALD HALL Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.
AMIT KALANTRI Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit o...
MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.
JAQUELIN T. ROBERTSON Old age is no place for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS All diseases run into one, old age.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
PHILIP ROTH Old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH Old age is a woman's hell
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