“Romance gathers round an old story like lichen on an old branch. And the story of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard is so old now — some say a year old, some say even two. How can the children be expected to remember?”

“Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead”

“It must be the old, darling, foolish Highlands in us, my dear, the old people and the old stupid stories they are telling us for generations round he fire, and it must be the hills about us, and the constant complaint of the sea.”

“Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.”

“Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.”

“We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.”

“As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.”

“Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.”

“Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
As great lords' stories often are.”

“There's an old Australian stockman, lying, dying… and he gets himself up on one elbow, and he turns to his mates, who are gathered 'round him and he says…”