Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!

I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.

With the "old dog" stuff, maybe the term "old" is in there, but I'm 26. I'm not that old. It's mostly like, "Ah, you dirty old dog!" I'm saying it more like that. I'm still ripping. I'm ready to rip. I'll make a bunch more records and have a nice time. We'll see what happens.

'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

I was playing once with the King of Samoa. I asked him what his handicap was. "Six wives," he said.

Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of sexual contact with her husband brings old age upon a woman; and garments become old through being left in the sun.

As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

I love all that stuff like 'Tales From The Crypt,' 'Twlight Zone,' and 'Amazing Stories.'

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.

The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.

Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

I think, so often, women play supporting roles or girlfriends or wives - they're there to support a man's journey.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Donald Trump has had several foreign wives. It turns out that there really are jobs Americans won't do.

The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.

Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.

I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in.

My fan base is really, really young. They're the youngest demographic that you can track on YouTube: 13- to 17-year-old females. But the fan mail that I get in my P.O. box, they're all from moms and from kids who are two years old, three years old, four years old.

Folk tales, which are usually written for children, become a bigger lesson for adults.

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

The whole idea of re-releasing old movies does bother me a little bit. If they're going to re-release an old movie, I should be able to get in with my old ticket.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don't want to be a footballer's wife.

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

It is my childhood dream to have a Christian-style wedding, just like the fairy tales.

Old Lights include the resurgent fundamentalists in every religion who put a freeze on history and fortify their adherents against the "new dark age" in which they are forced to live. "Back to the Bible," Old Lights shout; "back to the Koran," Old Lights thunder. But not everything Old Lights say is wrong. Much is right. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, the old adage reminds us.

The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them.

The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

Examples draw where precept fails, and sermons are less read than tales.

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.

The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.

If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side.