Top 1200 Old Saying Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We had people coming to our Foreign Relations Committee and saying, "Oh, we need to arm the allies of Al Qaida." They are still saying this. It is a crazy notion. This is the biggest debate we should be having is is regime change a good idea; has it been a good idea.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

My hobby is old 4x4's, you know, old Blazers and Broncos and stuff.

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

Secularism is categorically not saying that the religious may not speak out publicly or have a say in public life. It is about saying that religion alone should not confer a privileged say in public life, or greater influence on it. It really is as simple as that.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

It was hard saying goodbye to the character and harder saying goodbye to the actor. When rumours started going around that Rob Lowe might be leaving I got an email from Josh Malina asking if I'd be interested in an actor who was cheaper and not as good looking. I wrote back, "Always", and that was that.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.

Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and years old. Here in the United States an old building is about 17 (years old), and over there it's from 500 B.C., it's incredible.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

Jeb Bush has to distance himself from what they call the Bush brand. So he keeps saying, 'I am my own man.' But when Governor Chris Christie is out on the campaign trail, he's always saying, 'I'm my own man, plus another guy.'

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

Now, I am not saying that there is one single type of individual who is a better type of terrorist than another. What I am saying is that the circumstances that push certain individuals over the edge, to become terrorists, are generally very, very similar.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pain in order to give the illusion of gain. I'm not saying I reject success, but honestly, I don't quite know how to deal with it. It's an old feeling: As soon as you have the thing you've been going after all your life, that reasonable degree of security, you start kicking against it, doubting it.

We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!’

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.