“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.”
Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)
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Source: Entrepreneur of the New Millenium: N.R. Narayana Murthy : Life & Times of N.R. Narayana Murthy, p. 29

“Teenage angst has paid off well
Now I'm bored and old.”
Serve the Servants.
Song lyrics, In Utero (1993)
“On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”
Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, Line 2.
“Sister, look ye,
How, by a new creation of my tailor's
I've shook off old mortality.”
The Fancies, Chaste and Noble Act I, sc. iii. (1635-6)

“Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended.”
The Double Gallant, prologue (1707).
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).