#old

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

#alarm #astonishment #avoid #catching #caused

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film. ↗

— Robert Conrad

#control #ego #film #go #had

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#exactly #forties #i #into #knows

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