Top 1200 Old Saying Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git.

Let's look at what Donald Trump is now [in November 2016] saying. He's saying he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare. He is also saying maybe that if you have a pre-existing condition, you'll be able to buy insurance.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.

I remember when I was at Radio 1 I would get these Tweets saying 'Shut up! You're so old!' I was 36!

What attracted us and allured us to Old Trafford are all the great things, all the great history, and all the great heritage. People keep saying 'what are you going to change?' And the thing I keep saying is people aren't going to notice a change.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting." And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

What is deemed "unlikeable" in Washington is actually standing up to Washington and saying no, saying "The emperor has no clothes," saying "We made promises to the people who elected us; let's do that."

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

Politicians today are not highly regarded... there seem to be people young and old and in the middle saying that they have never heard such wretched debates.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

I've been blessed enough where all the rules that come with age don't apply to me. People were saying I was old at 32.

There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go.

I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

I didn't realize it at the time, but writing obituaries was one of best jobs that I've ever had. After all, it's the only time that someone will ever laminate my work and put it in their Bible. Plus, let's be honest, writing obits in Sarasota is a very busy job. The old saying was that old people lived in Miami, but their parents lived in Sarasota.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

Obama's the most thoughtful-sounding president I can remember. He seems to be saying what he wants to say, and that is a great relief. He always sounds like he's thinking about what he's saying while he's saying it, and that's a rare thing in politicians.

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

I sometimes fantasize about being an old lady, when you can say the truth that everyone else is thinking and no one is saying.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

When Marlee [Matlin] won her Oscar, she said, "and I just want to thank my parents." When I was saying those words for her, I knew my parents were in the audience. I was saying it for her and a little bit for myself, even though I wasn't saying it in sign language and they didn't understand what I was saying.

One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired.

Saying women aren't funny is now like saying Asians can't drive or saying black people have bad credit. It's just really, like, so obsolete.

I remember Nigel Martyn joking with me at Leeds, saying he was old enough to be my father, which he certainly was.

Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying

Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.

The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Anyone who has a child knows the importance of not over-playing your hand. He was up all night playing some game on his smartphone and you feel like saying that if it happens again the phone is gone. Forever. Till he is old enough to buy his own. Till then he can have your old Nokia.

"Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire.