In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
Asleep in lap of legends old.
His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.
There are no really new stories anymore.
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
Old stories often turn out to be true.
I love Sherlock Holmes, but I love any of these old stories where the writer was paid by the word, so the adventures just continue forever. They are almost like they were meant to be read out loud.
A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.
Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
There's no longevity in me telling old stories on the radio.
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.
she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered when she died they gave me her clock
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.
I find inspiration from a lot of different texts and really old stories and folk tales - things I feel like no one else is reading.
