Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann.
A conversation in 1879 on who was the centre of gravity at the Congress of Berlin, referring to Benjamin Disraeli, as quoted in Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1912) by Andrew Dickson White, p. 482
1870s
Der alte Jude, das ist der Mann.
Rudolf Höss [to Leon Goldensohn, April 9, 1946].
“No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.”
Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 1, ch. 7.
“A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.”
The Unknown Quantity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Old Man Howard, that Old Man Howard, he just keeps rolling, just keeps rolling.”
Andrew Pierce, "Boris on a roll", The Times, 29 April 2005, p. 40.
When asked by The Oxford Student whether he sees anyone amongst his younger colleagues who would one day replace Howard.
2000s, 2005
Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)
“You are getting too old for this." "A man is as old as he feels, woman!" "And how old do you feel?”
"About ninety."
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 15
Book II, Chapter 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
Mere Christianity (1952)
Context: Among these Jews there suddenly turns up a man who goes about talking as if He was God. He claims to forgive sins. He says He has always existed. He says He is coming to judge the world at the end of time. Now let us get this clear. Among Pantheists, like the Indians, anyone might say that he was a part of God, or one with God: there would be nothing very odd about it. But this man, since He was a Jew, could not mean that kind of God. God, in their language, meant the Being outside of the world, who had made it and was infinitely different from anything else. And when you have grasped that, you will see that what this man said was, quite simply, the most shocking thing that has ever been uttered by human lips.
