Quotes of Olden - somelinesforyou

“ In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes. ”

- Cole Porter

“ In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. ”

- Helen Rowland

“ Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury… ”

- Edward Hoagland
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