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I'm old fashioned. I don't believe in extra-marital relationships. I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Manhattan (with Marshall Brickman).

Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you.

-St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
AD 397  Confessions, bk.10, ch.27.

   But I'm dying now and done for, What on earth was all the fun for? I am ill and old and terrified and tight.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'Sun and FunöSong of a Night-club Proprietress'.

Thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis15:15.

   Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings1:1.

And it cameto pass, when hemade mention of thearkof God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 4:18.

Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Samuel 8:5.

I have been young and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 37:25.

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs17:6.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 22:6.

The L hath appeared of old unto me, saying,Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDJeremiah 31:3.

   And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joel 2:28.

For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Esdras14:10.

When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but whenthoushalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 21:18.

Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Colossians 3:9^11.

I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we were formerly told.

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  'Report On Experience'.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past isto satisfy themselves that it isstill there.

-Blythe, Ronald George
  The View in Winter, introduction.

You probably know, the better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligentenoughto comehomeagain.Thenthey'retoo old and intelligent to want to.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Rates of Exchange, pt.5, ch.3.

They love the Good; they worshipTruth; They laugh uproariously in youth; (And when they get to feeling old, They up and shoot themselves, I'm told).

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

Dear, dead woman, with suchhair, tooöwhat's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'A  Toccata of Galuppi's'.

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