Old Time Quotes

• "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

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

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• I'm a big fan of period pieces, and I'm a big fan of the old-time westerns.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Fans, Pieces, Bigs

  "Q&A: Giancarlo Esposito, True Gentleman, on Revolution and Breaking Bad". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2012.

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Time, Secret Places, Hands

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Massachusetts, Conventions

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• I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song.

  Clint Black

  Christmas, Song, Writing

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• The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Nostalgia, All Time

  "The Age of Bronze" st. 1 (1823)

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• I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Friendship, Birthday

  1773 She Stoops to Conquer, act 1, sc.1.

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• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

  John Milton

  Running, Time, Age

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 14

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• Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

  Caroline Norton

  Men, Age, Graves

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1840). “The Dream, and Other Poems”, p.236

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• They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

  Francis Bacon

  Reverence, Scorn

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• A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

  George F. Kennan

  Time, Guests, Members

  Of the feeling of being viewed as a pragmatist. Quoted in Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas The WiseMen (1986).

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• The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.  God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• I am an old-fashioned preacher of the old-time religion, that has warmed this cold world's heart for two thousand years.

  Billy Sunday

  Heart, Years, Two

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1914). “Salesman's Prospectus for "Billy" Sunday: The Man and His Message, with His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The passions of the young are vices in the old.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Passion, Vices

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• Old Time the clock-setter.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Clock

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 324

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• Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

  Bob Seger

  Fashion, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Bob Seger (2010). “Bob Seger - Guitar Chord Songbook”, p.62, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Mike Tyson has to be one of my greatest all time fighters. Muhammad Ali. I like going back looking at the classics like Roberto Duran. I like the old time fighters, when you had a champion in the old days you really had a true champion. Muhammad Ali would take on anybody. You had the greats fighting everybody.

  Keith Thurman

  Fighting, Champion, Fighter

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.

  Herman Melville

  Morning, Couple, Lying

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.58, Velvet Element Books

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• 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

  Gone

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.57, Booklassic

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• O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The "good old times" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Mean, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.702, Ageless Reads

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• Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

  Nora Roberts

  Rose, Lockers, Towels

  Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.175, Penguin

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• There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

  Martin Scorsese

  Directors, Wanted

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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