Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Trust me, lots of guys bring women up to their rooms when their wives are aren't there and get massages, it happens all the time. It means 'nothing'.

Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun.

Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.

It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an old-school dude, and I'm vibin' with stuff like that to clear my mind. I like listening to that old-school music.

None of the wives mention the security guards by the door, who will probably tackle us to the ground if we try to leave without our husbands.

Wives and girlfriends really shouldn't be anywhere near the band. Not at all. Anyone who's listening to their girlfriend, they shouldn't be involved. All bands have Yoko Onos, and the Mondays were no exception.

I played for four clubs during my career and for me it was like having four wives.

India and other developing nations need non-farm sector activity. So what we are doing, we are giving small microbusiness to the rural women, especially the farmers' wives.

I will talk to people who say they loved 'Tales of the City' or 'Far and Away' or 'Love and Human Remains' or 'Barcelona.'

These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

Osama bin Laden... lived in one house for, like, six years with three wives. And earlier today, they ruled his death was a suicide.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.

I think writers from both East and West have long been fascinated by the ancient tales and the opportunity to reinterpret them.

I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I categorically state that I did not participate in PTI politics. I was told to be engaged in certain activities as wives of politicians are asked to do all over the world.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

I spend a lot of time thinking about this business of letting go - letting go of the children God gives to us for such a brief time before they go off on their own; letting go of old homes, old friends, old places and old dreams.

One thing they don't tell you about growing old - you don't feel old, you just feel like yourself. And it's true. I don't feel eighty-nine years old. I simply am eighty-nine years old.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

Sex suppressed will go berserk, But it keeps us all alive. It's a wonderful change from wives and work And it ends at half past five.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they're finally going to 'change' themselves, they are promising something imaginary and made up.

Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.

Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you.

Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

Some pastors are so hard-nosed about submission and insensitive to their wives' needs that they don't recognize the frustration even hatred within their own households.

Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams.

Vampires have become tragic or romantic figures. Vampire are largely seduction tales. They're no longer the scary creature in the dark.

Gamesters and highwaymen are generally very good to their whores, but they are very devils to their wives.

I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.

In a city this size, every year, hundreds of husbands walk away. Kids leave home. Wives escape. People disappear.

Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.

I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears.

I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace.