A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

You can’t put NEW wine in old bottles
With allusion to MATTHEW ix. 17 (AV) Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. The idea is also expressed allusively as a metaphorical phrase.

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  1912 L. STRACHEY Landmarks in French Literature vi. The new spirits had animated the prose of Chateaubriand and the poetry of Lamartine; but.. the form of both these writers retained most of the important characteristics of the old tradition. It was new wine in old bottles. 1948 A. J. TOYNBEE Civilization on Trial vi. The new wines of industrialism and democracy have been poured into old bottles and they have burst the old bottles beyond repair. 1960 I. JEFFERIES Dignity & Purity viii. ‘I don’t think you can put new wine in old bottles.’ I looked doubtful. .. ‘A lot of this could be rationalized.’ 1974 T. SHARPE Porterhouse Blue x. ‘Motives?.. Good old-fashioned lust.’ ‘That hardly explains the explosive nature of his end.’.. ‘You can’t put new wine in old bottles.’ ■ innovation
  

There is always something NEW out of Africa
L. ex Africa semper aliquid novi, a variant of a passage in the Naturalis Historia (viii. 16) of Pliny the Elder referring to hybridization of African animals: unde etiam vulgare Graeciae dictum semper aliquid novi African afferre, hence that common saying of the Greek that Africa is always bringing forth something new; the allusion is to a passage in Aristotle’s De Animalibus Historia viii. 28, 7 ^{л :}' /•-•с?.¹ -.-к.-. Libya is always showing something
new. Versions of the Latin saying have been current in England since Erasmus’ Adagia (1500).
□1559 W. BAVARDE tr. A Woorke of Ioannes Ferrarius 81 It is saied that Affricque bringeth foorthe alwaies some newe thing. 1642 J. HOWELL Instructions for Forreine Travel (Arber ed.) iii. 22 France, which as Africk produceth always something New, for I never knew week passe in Paris but it brought forth some new kinds of Authors. 1976 D. ARDEN (title) Out of Africa something new? 1983 R. KELLY ‘Stone Wall in Providence’ in Under Words 112 Always something new / out of Africa. Rubadubdub of the new desires squeezing / into the convenient old places of the sleepstonewall. 2000 CBS NEWS (web site) 11 June It is a thing of rare beauty nonetheless: Humans and dangerous animals at peace and in harmony with each other—proving once again that there is always something new out of Africa. ■ novelty
new see also there is NOTHING new under the sun; it is best to be OFF with the old love before you are on with the new; you can’t TEACH an old dog new tricks.