Famous quotes containing the word oldest:
“We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.”
—Greil Marcus (b. 1945)
“A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)