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  • The 'good old times' - all times when old are good. -- Lord Byron
  • I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times. -- Bob Uecker
  • Quite like old times,' the room says. -- Jean Rhys
  • If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window. -- Charlie Chaplin
  • They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new. -- Francis Bacon
  • I have very warm memories about New York, about the old times, mostly the '60s. -- Erro
  • ... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences. -- William James
  • Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt. -- Ezra Pound
  • If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. -- Buster Keaton
  • Are we not like the actor of old times, who wore his mask so long his face took its likeness? -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times! -- Booth Tarkington
  • In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. -- Samuel Butler
  • Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times. -- Janet Evanovich
  • In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. -- Buffalo Bill
  • In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting. -- John Ruskin
  • In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself. -- Oscar Wilde
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  • I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world. -- Will Rogers
  • The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • Moving Pictures' still makes me get into a groove; I love the way it feels. But I'm not nostalgic for old times. I'd love to have that hair again and be 40 pounds lighter, but it's a tradeoff. -- Alex Lifeson
  • I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years. -- Paul Simon
  • I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy. -- Bill Kreutzmann
  • It was so like old times that Henry found himself smiling down at Olek and Mance, playing to her, capable of ignoring the rest. It did seem for those seconds that the earth had at last been pacified by music. -- Thomas Keneally
  • Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me? -- William Makepeace Thackeray
  • "Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down. -- Charles Dickens
  • A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring. -- Luis Marden
  • I prefer the new me a million times more over than the old one. -- Benjamin Cohen
  • I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. -- Satchel Paige
  • It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. -- Travis Tritt
  • I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking. -- Carol Burnett
  • After a while, you have no idea how old you are because you've lied so many times. -- Sandra Bullock
  • Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. -- Robert Herrick
  • In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. -- John Kricfalusi
  • There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life. -- Heather Mills
  • I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. -- Padma Lakshmi
  • It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive. -- Pico Iyer
  • If we just made one movie, 'The Hobbit,' the fact is that all the fans, the eight-, nine- and 10-year-old boys, they would watch it 1,000 times. Now, they've got three films they can watch 1,000 times. -- Ian Mckellen
  • It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing. -- Barry McGee
  • I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression. -- Sharon Olds
  • As you step into your limitless self, you might be confronted with old habits and patterns that are not necessarily based in truth. These old ways of being show up because you have repeated many of them thousands of times. -- Debbie Ford
  • I like the 'Science Channel,' the 'Discovery Channel,' I like 'Discovery Times,' which is a fabulous hybrid of the 'New York Times' and 'Discovery Channel.' Maybe I'm just an old man, but I like to watch that stuff. -- James Marsters
  • What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • Trade is 10 times as old as farming. -- Matt Ridley
  • You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over. -- Wilson Rawls
  • There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man. -- Michael Parenti
  • For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit. -- Peter Drucker
  • A commentary on the times is that the word 'honesty' is now preceded by 'old-fashioned.' -- Larry Walters
  • Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times. -- Joko Beck
  • Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes. -- Pete Seeger
  • You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these? -- Robert Graves
  • Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. -- Amor Towles
  • I think folk music helps reinforce your sense of history. An old song makes you think of times gone by. -- Pete Seeger
  • Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. -- Joseph Joubert
  • Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven. -- William Blake
  • Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday! -- Franklin P. Adams
  • I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple. -- Kreayshawn
  • No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before. -- Barbara Neely
  • In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. -- Anne Fadiman
  • If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head. -- Madeleine Roux
  • When I listen to old music, that's one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity. -- Robert Crumb
  • Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man? -- Bob Seger
  • Angels are spirit beings who are mentioned more than 250 times in both the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. -- Mary C. Neal
  • Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? -- Michel de Montaigne
  • His smile brought back the best times, sweet memories of nights together... stirring up those old feelings that got me thinkin' bout forever.. -- Lee Ann Womack
  • I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times. -- Jaclyn Smith
  • I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life. -- Shane Smith
  • Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'. -- Bob Dylan
  • What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle. -- Thomas Browne
  • I was 16-years-old when I appeared on 'American Idol,' and the show was my boot camp. It was a crazy, stressful at times, experience. -- Jessica Sanchez
  • In a Ramada Inn near the grapevine, they stop to rest for the night. Traveling down south, looking for good times. Visiting old friends feels right. -- Neil Young
  • If you listen to old Jerry Lee Lewis records, he'll always - about nine times out of 10 have the lyrics different than the original record is. -- Chris Isaak
  • I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times. -- Constance Marie
  • I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever happens is all good. -- Jane Siberry
  • For all things turn to barenness In the dim glass the demons hold The glass of outer weariness Made when God slept in times of old -- Loreena McKennitt
  • I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people. -- Malachy McCourt
  • I've always had a special place in my heart for old women digging through garbage bins. They saved my life so many times as a baby. -- Emo Philips
  • "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal. -- Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • I have to admit I do get a bit depressed at times and you know I think about the good old days when I was charging ahead. -- Edmund Hillary
  • Me and Jerry left because we felt we weren't getting anywhere playing our old songs in tiny clubs. The group was getting stale and staying behind the times. -- Johnny Thunders
  • I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days. -- Serj Tankian
  • I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
  • Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score. -- Alexander Pope
  • I'd like to cook for my granny one more time. I cooked for her a couple of times before she passed away, but I wasn't really old enough." -- Arthur Potts Dawson
  • For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them! -- Kurt Braunohler
  • The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in. -- Boyd K. Packer
  • A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a day. -- Peter Morgan
  • I know I'm getting old because there will be times when I'm not even doing anything and I'll think, 'I need to go wipe my ass right now.' -- Louis C. K.
  • I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence. -- Ian MacKaye
  • The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones. -- Cormac McCarthy
  • I remember the old Times Square from when I was younger, and there was a seedy thrill to it. Some of that is gone, which I have a little bit of nostalgia for. -- Janeane Garofalo
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