Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Old birds are not caught with chaff. Pr.

Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age. Holmes.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton.

Old friends are best. King James I., as he slipt on his old shoes.

Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome 15 air; / Love them for what they are; nor love them less; / Because to thee they are not what they were. Coleridge.

Old head and young hand. Pr.

Old head upon young shoulders. Pr.

Old heads will not suit young shoulders. Pr.

Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended. C. Cibber.

Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in 20 logical words or parliamentary laws, are fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat unblessed to behold. Carlyle.