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Letter "O" » Old Road
«Laugh! I thought I should 'ave died, / Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.»
«Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know»
«[They] face each other across the road like mad old duchesses in party clothes.»
«I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the beer stronger, the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer»
Author: Brendan Behan
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Society
| Keywords:
connected, happier, irreverence, Old Road, safer, warmer
«Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.»
Author: Pink Floyd
| Keywords:
Old Road
«Softly along the road of evening, / In a twilight dim with rose, / Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew, / Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.»
Author: Walter de La Mare
| Keywords:
drench, drenched, drenched in, drenches, nod, Old Road, wrinkled
«Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.»
«We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life but they would assassinate you.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
assassinate, assassinated, assassinating, Old Road
«The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent / for every effect a perfect cause / and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
affinity, cent, common cause, merchant, Old Road, One Pound, sense of purpose
«The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.»
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