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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Old

Old as a serpent.
—Anonymous

Old as Charing-Cross.
—Anonymous

Old as circus jokes.
—Anonymous

Old as creation.
—Anonymous

Old as Eve.
—Anonymous

Old as grey eternity.
—Anonymous

Old as Hercules.
—Anonymous

Old as Jericho.
—Anonymous

Old as man.
—Anonymous

Old as Methuselah.
—Anonymous

Old as Nestor.
—Anonymous

Old as poverty.
—Anonymous

Old as Solomon.
—Anonymous

Old as the age of stone.
—Anonymous

Old as the hills.
—Anonymous

Old as the Prophet Ezekiel.
—Anonymous

Old as the rebuilding of Samaria.
—Anonymous

Old as Trilobites.
—Anonymous

Old as Zoroaster.
—Anonymous

Old as Paradise.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Old as my little finger.
—John Day

As old as Fate.
—Lord De Tabley

Old as Time.
—Austin Dobson

Ever old and ever new as love.
—George Du Maurier

Old as thought.
—Elbert Hubbard

Old as Priam.
—Henry W. Longfellow

As old as human nature.
—William Hurrell Mallock

As old as heartache.
—Meredith Nicholson

As old as the itch.
—Spanish Proverb

Old as Sibylla.
—William Shakespeare

Old as the shepherds.
—George Bernard Shaw

Old as the earth is old.
—Arthur Symons

Wax old like a garment.
—New Testament

Old as hope.
—Francis Thompson