Top 1200 Old Adage Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

This is going to be an old fashioned Baptist camp meeting with old fashioned singing, preaching and testifying.

If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint?old man propaganda.

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.

You don't feel old when you get old.

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain!

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The way yogurt works is you take the old yogurt culture and you put it in milk. You have to put enough of the old culture in, and then that old culture will convert the milk into yogurt.

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!

I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.

I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.

When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids' TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.

I couldn't comprehend a 35-year-old woman gravitating toward a 70-year-old man.

The weird thing about old Playboys is knowing that the naked woman is now an old lady. I said weird. I didn't say bad.

My kids are my salvation.... It's a delight to walk in and get charged by a five-year-old and a two-year-old. That'll make you forget the darkness.

This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

Read my letter to the old folks, and give my love to them, and tell my brothers to be always watching unto prayer, and when the good old ship of Zion comes along, to be ready to step aboard.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else.

I don't care if Rick Ross is 40 years old -- he's a misguided 40-year-old person.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.

I'm currently raising a 15 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, which a guess is my punishment for a wild youth!

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

It's such an old-fashioned attitude to make people feel like they're not good enough for your clothes. That's so negative and so old-fashioned and wrong.

I think, you know, if you're young - even if you're old, it doesn't matter how old you are - but if you find something that you really want to try, just give it a try.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.

The idea of feeling old is much more the worry of a slightly younger person. When you are getting old, that becomes - psssh - completely secondary to the absolute understanding of how short your life is.

When the Beatles cut old rock n' roll, they were recording music still in their performing repertoire, and besides, they never thought of the music as old.

Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images

I find it incredibly annoying to just go out and sing the old stuff and write songs that sound like the old stuff.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not.