#old

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. ↗

— Scott Cook

#bank #bars #certificates #coins #fifty

Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode. ↗

— Gary Cooper

#dish #down #explode #got #her

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. ↗

— Jeff Cooper

#ears #hands #happens #hold #safety

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#back #bad #bad back #doctor #got

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#education #learning #old-age #prosperity #age

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#confidence #did #each #entire #gift

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#century #faded #forms #later #old

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#how #i #intelligent #mind #old

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#modern #old-fashioned #partly

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#bear #book #first #had #happened