Old Jurist Quotes

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal. ~ Saddam Hussein

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and old lovers are soundest. ~ John Webster

I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. ~ Frederick Soddy

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine

My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified ~ Kin Hubbard

Do you think we are truly ever old?" she says. "I mean, inside ourselves, old? Ready to be old? ~ Kate Walbert

It is clear that when an immaterial entity is being referred to rather than a guiser, this figure is a conflation of perhaps a number of Pagan deities with the ecclesiastical principle of evil. The epithet 'old' ('auld' in Scots) prefixes many of the names given to this being: Old Nick, The Old 'un, The Old Lad, Old Scratch, Old Ragusan, Old Sam, Old Horny, Old Bargus, Old Bogy, Old Providence, The Auld Chiel and The Auld Gudeman. Old is clearly a reference to something ancient, most likely belief ~ Nigel Pennick

Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. ~ Dorothy Gilman

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them. ~ Carew Papritz

Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions. ~ George Herbert

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. ~ Francis Bacon

I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old. ~ Sergio Garcia

What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree. ~ Shackerley Marmion

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. ~ Bernard Baruch

It's not hard, then, to see how the simple message of a Jewish carpenter in Nazareth became so popular. Jesus didn't talk much about justice. He talked about mercy. He talked about forgiveness. As his followers see it, Jesus is the Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, Universal Circuit. And he's a pretty lenient jurist. ~ Jonathan V. Last

Try to imagine its good old days whenever you see a ruin and try to do the same whenever you see an old person! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most people do not have a problem with being old. They have a problem with looking old. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The jurist is totally unacquainted with the problem of the value of money; he knows nothing of fluctuations in its exchange-value. The naive popular belief in the stability of the value of money has been admitted, with all its obscurity, into the law, and no great historical cause of large and sudden variations in the value of money has ever provided. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man. ~ Harrison Ford

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage. ~ Rip Torn

in our democratic societies, there is nothing that is not regulated. Arab jurists taught me something that I liked very much. They represent law as a sort of tree, with at one extreme what is forbidden and, at the other, what is obligatory. For them, the jurist's role is situated between these two extremes: that is, addressing everything that one can do without juridical sanction. This zone of freedom never stops narrowing, whereas it ought to be expanded. ~ Anonymous

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore. ~ Paolo Sorrentino

The silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic interest; while to the jurist, the study of human nature and human character with its infinite varieties, especially as affecting the connection between motive and action, between irregular desire or evil disposition and crime itself, is equally indispensable and difficult." - Wills on Circumstantial Evidence. ~ Henry B. Irving

Even idiots can reach old age. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Everything is connected" was probably a phrase first coined by an Old Soul. ~ Aletheia Luna

Do not forget you mother, when she is old. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies. ~ Ogden Nash

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny. ~ Adam McKay

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right. ~ R.J. Lawrence

Nevertheless, old stories, old rumors, and old picture books still seemed to have their own hold on the memory of the world. What ~ Terry Pratchett

Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course. ~ Old Tom Morris

They travel through the heartland, past cold factories and drifty towns, to the old, old mountains slumbering east of Tennessee. ~ Sarah Sullivan

I'm an old bag - I like old thing. ~ Manolo Blahnik

We grow too old to lose old friends ... ~ Beth Kephart

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies. ~ Judy Greer

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy. ~ Henry Ford

The same old thing
even if it's champagne
is still the same old thing. ~ Mason Cooley

Old people, with other old people, are not so old. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In San Francisco my friends and I picked a decade and stuck with it. We listened to old music, drove old cars, and wore old clothes. ~ Sophia Amoruso

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. ~ Robert Jordan

Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age. ~ Peg Bracken

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils. ~ Plutarch

Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric. ~ Lauren Dane

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun. ~ Chanakya

It was an old, old, old, old lady,
And a boy who was half-past three;
And the way they played together
Was beautiful to see. ~ Henry Cuyler Bunner

It was the way the autumn day looked into the high windows as it waned; the way the red light, breaking at the close from under a low sombre sky, reached out in a long shaft and played over old wainscots, old tapestry, old gold, old colour. ~ Henry James

I can't believe you're old enough to have your purpose," Mom says with a sigh. "Makes me feel old."
"You are old. ~ Cynthia Hand

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger. ~ Dolly Parton

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book. ~ Ambrose Bierce

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch. ~ Stephen King

People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but - " are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. ~ Robert Benchley

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying. ~ Brandon Marshall

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days. ~ Rose Schneiderman

The trick is growing up without growing old. ~ Casey Stengel

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I'll be scalded and tarred if a man can't get a little welcome when he comes home. Well, Maggie, you old gunny-sack, how's the broken down old weather hen? - Sabina, old fishbait, old skunkpot. - And the children, - how've the little smellers been? ~ Thornton Wilder

Oh! Old rubbish! Old letters, old clothes, old objects that one does not want to throw away. How well nature has understood that, every year, she must change her leaves, her flowers, her fruit and her vegetables, and make manure out of the mementos of her year! ~ Jules Renard

Old habits for old people; reinvent yourself while you still can! ~ T.F. Hodge

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old ~ Groucho Marx

When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old. ~ Michael Morpurgo

The oldest pictures were faded and yellowing, and Colin thought about how even in pictures of their youth, old people look old. ~ John Green

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.' ~ Marilyn Ferguson

Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester. ~ Paul Christopher

Our hands meet for an instant and she withdraws quickly, frightened she might catch something. Old age perhaps. ~ Kate Morton

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend. ~ Nina Campbell

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet! ~ Tina Turner

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. ~ Elizabeth Moon

It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings. ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were the easiest for his feet. ~ John Selden

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland. ~ Maxim Gorky

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. ~ Megan Chance

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out. ~ Paul Simon

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper
forgetting age for a moment. ~ Mason Cooley

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. ~ Peter Warlock

Empaths who feel like old souls that have lived for many lifetimes are known as Indigo Children. ~ Aletheia Luna

When I was young, I wanted power.
Now that I'm old, I want peace.
When I was young, I wanted titles.
Now that I'm old, I want contentment.
When I was young, I wanted money.
Now that I'm old, I want happiness.
When I was young, I wanted excitement.
Now that I'm old, I want calm.
When I was young, I wanted praise.
Now that I'm old, I want respect.

When I was young, I wanted houses.
Now that I'm old, I want fulfillment.
When I was young, I wanted cars.
Now that I'm old, I want satisfaction.
When I was young, I wanted possessions.
Now that I'm old, I want experiences.
When I was young, I wanted medals.
Now that I'm old, I want mastery.
When I was young, I wanted lackeys.
Now that I'm old, I want companions.

When I was young, I wanted amusement.
Now that I'm old, I want rest.
When I was young, I wanted beauty.
Now that I'm old, I want substance.
When I was young, I wanted fame.
Now that I'm old, I want legacy.
When I was young, I wanted command.
Now that I'm old, I want freedom.
When I was young, I wanted authority.
Now that I'm old, I want influence.

When I was young, I wanted reputation.
Now that I'm old, I want character.
When I was young, I wanted treasure.
Now that I'm old, I want truth.
When I was young, I wanted confidence.
Now that I'm old, I want conviction.
When I was young, I ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We cannot be effective if we continue to cling to the old ways, the old strategies, the old assumptions. ~ George Barna

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back. ~ Eddie Rickenbacker

An old man is never at home save in his own garments: his own old thinking and beliefs; old hands and feet, elbow, knee, shoulder which he knows will fit. ~ William Faulkner

Do you think I am too old, Savannah?" he asked softly, taking strands of her hair into his mouth. So soft. So much like silk but even better.
"Not old, Gregori," she corrected gently. "Just old-fashioned. You have a tendency to believe women should always do as they're told."
He found himself laughing. "Not that you do. ~ Christine Feehan

You are never too old to become younger! ~ Mae West

Old beggars in stories are never really old beggars," Simmon said with a hint of accusation in his voice. "They're always a witch or a prince or an angel or something."
"In real life old beggars are almost always old beggars," I pointed out. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old. ~ Carew Papritz

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. ~ Flannery O'Connor

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours. ~ Vincent Massey

You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?" "About ninety. ~ David Gemmell

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old. ~ Madeline Miller

Like Mrs Pleasance I always fancy that misers are old. I cannot tell why this should be since I am sure that there are as many young misers as old. As to whether or not Mr Norrell was in fact old, he was the sort of man who had been old at seventeen. ~ Susanna Clarke

I may be an old guy, but the truth is old guys remember stuff real well. Not recent things, you understand, but old things. You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in. No way at all, you understand? So I don't remember any new stuff because my old bucket is all filled up with old stuff that happened way back. ~ Lee Child

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes. ~ Theodore Sturgeon

Watch the old man. Watch how the old man keeps the guys who aren't playing happy. ~ Mickey Mantle

I want a 60-year-old mind, a 30-year-old body, and a 20-year-old man! ~ Carolyn V. Hamilton