Olden Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

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
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… — Michael Bloomberg
In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled.… — Jeremy Clarkson
You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would… — Sue Lowden
In olden times, when wishing still helped... — Jacob Grimm
Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden… — Jimi Hendrix
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and… — Cole Porter
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,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Slavery was regarded by Aristotle as an ordinance of nature, and so probably was it by the slaves themselves in olden time. — Alfred Marshall
If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would just drive you… — Jack Handey
And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful… — Max Ehrmann
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… — Gustave Courbet
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they… — Edward Hoagland
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… — Geoffrey Rush
In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation. The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of… — Dalai Lama
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
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated. — Hugh Latimer
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...… — Bayard Taylor
In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a… — Mike Harding
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… — Leo Durocher

Who Wrote These Olden Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 44 Olden Quotes, led by these top contributors: