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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland
In the olden days, a couple could be in every movie together, but it's just not like that anymore. -- Blake Lively
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. -- Cole Porter
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. -- Alfred Marshall
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. -- Leonard Bernstein
In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. -- Leo Durocher
I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years. -- Kara Swisher
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. -- Gustave Courbet
In the olden days, I believe Mozart also improvised on piano, but somehow in the last 200 years, the whole training of Western classical music - they don't read between the lines, they just read the lines. -- Ravi Shankar
I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid. -- Geoffrey Rush
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. -- Nancy Gibbs
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change. -- Michael Bloomberg
In olden times, when wishing still helped... -- Jacob Grimm
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated. -- Hugh Latimer
In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us. -- Vladimir Odoevsky
In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open. -- Mark Zuckerberg
A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story. -- Michael Ende
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days. -- Sarah Silverman
All this home-computer gaming, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, now this Xbox thing, maybe I just want the boys to see what blowing aliens away was like in the olden days. -- Thomas Pynchon
In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.] -- Joe Eszterhas
Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives. -- Albert Payson Terhune
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We'll make it a blowout like in the olden days.""When dinosaurs roamed the earth?" Teddy asked."Exactly," Dad said. "When dinosaurs roamed the earth and your mom and I were young. -- Gayle Forman
In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that even the sun... was struck with wonder. -- Jacob Grimm
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years... -- Bayard Taylor

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