Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

I mean, hell, when I pitched 'Basketball Wives' I was still married and I had no intentions of being on the show, I just was producing it and creating it, and that was it.

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy of the fairy tales and the stories.

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

'For Those Who Can Tell No Tales' is a story of memory and the energy of places that remain full of drama, pain, and denial.

I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Most of the time, husbands and wives argue about stupid, foolish things. If it doesn't mean that much to you, give in to your wife.

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

When you're 20 you can put a ton of old-age prosthetics on and be an old guy, but when you're 70 you can't play a 20-year-old.

A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.

O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king Armchair warriors often fail And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers clean up all details Since daddy had to lie But I know a place where we can go And wash away this sin We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind Just lay your head back on the ground And let your hair spill all around me Offer up your best defence But this is the end This is the end of the innocence

John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

It's always interesting to talk to people's moms or sisters or wives. It gives you a different perspective of somebody that everybody already thinks they knew.

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Army wives sacrifice a lot, we need to salute them because no matter what, they always put up a brave face.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I'm a storyteller who uses all of the beauty and power of cinema to tell tales of human struggles for positive social change.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Wives and such are constantly filling up any refrigerator they have a claim on, even its ice-compartment, with irrelevant rubbish like food.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?

Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.

I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson.

Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

It is said the boundless steppes of Asia gave flight to tales of heroes and heroines because the conditions there are so harsh.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high.

Out of your awareness you cannot become soldiers in a war because you will be able to see, with clear eyes, that you are going to kill people - people who have done no harm to you personally, people just like you. They have their children, their wives, their mothers, their old fathers to take care of - and you are killing the person just to get a gold medal. Your gun will slip out of your hand, and that will be an act of awareness. And you will feel tremendously blissful that it happened; even if you are being shot your death will be a glory, a peace, an adventure, a journey into a new world.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.

I wish I had a wife who could manage things for me. Men are blessed that way. They have wives to look after their home.

As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

I always wanted to be on 'Sesame Street,' that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!