Pastoral Resources

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.