Top 1200 Old Wisdom Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

People that call old leads, drive old cars.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.

We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

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.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I think we'll still be a family restaurant, we'll be contemporary, we'll be lifestyle, we won't be old, we won't be 60 years old in the view of the consumer.

Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

It's not the number of years that makes you old, but the idea that you are getting old.

I've been told I'm an old soul, but I'm only 25. I have the old with the new in me, and my house reflects that.

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever "the old" means for you.

Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

I'm 33 years old; I'm getting old. Every year is different, and as an athlete, you've got to be honest with yourself.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

I've met fans that are 9 months old to 90 years old.

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm.

I like old fashioned things. We have these old wine buckets at the restaurant and none of them match.

I think the reality is that, for me, real fur is extraordinarily old fashioned. I think you look old. Even if you're 20, and you've got a real fur coat, you just look like an old, unaware, unconscious being on the planet. It's not relevant, it's not sexy, it's not fashionable, and it's not cool.

Mainly horror movies and exploitation movies and a lot of stuff comes from those press books from those old movies. Lines out of old movies, comic books that we collect, all the old horror comics of the 50s, probably about the only comics that we collect are obscure horror comics, the real sick ones from the 50s. Some stuff comes from there but mainly just old records, old rockabilly records and that stuff, singles mainly, 45s.

Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.

I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.

To rid yourself of old patterns, focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man.

A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you're getting to the end of the process of making a record.

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

Certainly old men are old, but they keep going strong, don't they?

An old-shoe lover loves loving old shoes.

there are no old people in California. Nobody ever gets a chance to grow old there. The climate won't let you. The scenery won't let you. The life won't let you.

We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?" Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So. . ." "So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said. Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

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.

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!

Everyone goes through those stretches. Everyone you talk to in this game, old coaches, old teammates, old players, whatnot, they all have those, 'Oh, I was 0-for-25, I was 0-for-30 one time.' I just try to not to get it that far, get it to that point and take it one at-bat as a time.

Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted to put their children directly in touch with actual cases, teaching them not by hearsay but by actively assaying them, vigorously molding and forming them not merely by word and precept but chiefly by deeds and examples, so that wisdom should not be something which the soul knows but the soul's very essence and temperament, not something acquired but a natural property.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

It's exciting to play against old teammates, old friends.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them to do what reason cannot teach us? Ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, whales, elephants, dromedaries, and camels; these, I confess, are the colossuses and majestick pieces of her hand; but in these narrow engines there is more curious mathematieks; and the civility of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdom of their Maker.

There's more discomfort being an old soul or a person who questions a lot of things. I'm young, but I'm old.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.