Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

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

In Biblical times, a man could have as many wives as he could afford. Just like today.

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except to use it: in writing, in art.

Trump is a little tone-deaf to the average American. He unveiled his slogan this week: 'Are you better off than you were four wives ago?'

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.

It's confusing. I've had so many wives and so many children I don't know which house to go to first on Christmas.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

What we know about Osama Bin Laden is this: he's worth $300 million, he has five wives and twenty-six kids -- and he hates Americans for their "excessive" lifestyle.

Some people don't have the luxury to see a future without the man, as they are dependent on him. That's because they put their education or priorities aside to be mothers or wives to somebody.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

I am extremely close to my brother, Kent, and my sister, Lauren, who have been remarkably understanding about all of my weird sibling tales.

What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.

I can only ask people to be tolerant of the fact that the... pressures of wives of politicians is very, very strong.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

I always think that a bit sad - that people think their wives would stop them doing what they wanted to do.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

Everyone can relate to loving someone and hating them in the same moment - husbands, wives, partners, siblings, parents, friends. It's kind of universal in that way.

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews and nieces.

I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.

You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

People change their positions all the time, the way they change their wives.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of 'Once upon a time' shapes all the fiction I've ever written.

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.

'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting.

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'