Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

The jewelry stores say, 'Tell your wife you love her with a diamond,' while wives tell you they love you with, 'Ok, but just because it's Valentine's Day.'

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.

I am not a typical wife. We are two friends who live together. We love each other, but I don't do the usual things that wives normally do for their husbands, like giving medicines on time, or making sure the clothes are ironed or dry-cleaned.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

My hobby is old 4x4's, you know, old Blazers and Broncos and stuff.

If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.

What women look for in a man: Breathing, IQ over 80, weight under 550 pounds, fewer than six ex-wives. What men look for in a woman: Pia Zadora as she was ten years ago.

Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes . . .

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton woool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it's such a sweet trap.

I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons... I was always drawn to those types of stories.

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

When I naturally write a story and I feel that the guy is sitting across the table from the girl and flirting with her... I think, 'God, that can't be me' because I'm just too old for that part. You need a 30-year-old or a 35-year-old for that part. And so I've given myself less and less roles.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Recently, our cable went out. Without the TV, children are forced to draw and read; grown-ups are forced to talk to their wives. I call it a psychic pacifier: It washes over you. It helps you avoid reality.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

When I talk about movies like 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Stepford Wives,' I really noticed that these movies were able to address fears surround the women's lib movement in a way that was engaging, not preachy, but fun.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way, while in America, the majority of movies are wonderful fairy tales.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

High-level political wives are by no means new. In the 18th and 19th centuries, when patricians dominated British political life, it was common for politicians' spouses to play an active political role.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?