Top 1200 Old Wives Tales Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke, the old lady with the glasses, beautiful old actress.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

It's true. somewhere inside us we are all the ages we have ever been. We're the 3 year old who got bit by the dog. We're the 6 year old our mother lost track of at the mall. We're the 10 year old who get tickled till we wet our pants. We're the 13 year old shy kid with zits. We're the 16 year old no one asked to the prom, and so on. We walk around in the bodies of adults until someone presses the right button and summons up one of those kids.

Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

The SEALs have a sense of community I've never seen anywhere. Not just the guys but the wives, widows, kids of fallen heroes.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

I think that most of my romance comes out in my music. And if you look at my track record of three ex-wives, maybe there's something to that.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.

Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in the proceeds.

Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.

This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage, and then let one man have all the wives.

Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.

These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

On your 60th, here's something philosophical To give the old grey matter a stir How old would you be If you didn't know how old you were?

Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

The legends say, that Ares takes the form of his warriors and he visits their wives while they're away at battle.

While I tend to favor styles that are glamorous, old Hollywood by night and very sleek and tailored during the day, I'm mindful of the fact that I'm 27 years old and try not to make that feel dowdy or old.

I like to make people happy, and with fairy tales, I can say anything I want to, but in an agreeable way.

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.