Old Saying Quotes

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'

  Thomas S. Monson

  Family, Happiness, Happy

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• For as the old saying is,
  When house and land are gone and spent
  Then learning is most excellent.

  Samuel Foote

  Education, Money, Land

  Samuel Foote (1797). “The Dramatic Works: Of Samuel Foote, Esq. To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author. In Two Volumes. ...”, p.14

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• There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Economics, Scope

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Good Man, Incredibles

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• I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

  Johnny Cash

  Pain, Mistake, Way

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• If you ever heard that old saying, where there's smoke there's fire; well that's a load of bull.

  Joe Teti

  Fire, Survival, Bulls

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• The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Character, Thinking, Artist

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• At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

  Robert Jordan

  Age, Wot, Stills

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Fires of Heaven: Book Five of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.361, Tor Books

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• We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kindness, War, Heart

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.71, Macmillan

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• There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

  Rick Yancey

  Doors, Cells, Sometimes

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.271, Penguin

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• It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not only are facts gathered that [are] often new in kind, but it is in these regions that wholly new concepts arise. It is my own faith that just as the older biology from its faithful studies of external forms provided a new concept in the doctrine of evolution, so the new biology is yet fated to furnish entirely new fundamental concepts of science, at which physics and chemistry when concerned with the non-living alone could never arrive.

  Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Science, Faithful, Growth

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• This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Thinking, Debate

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• Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

  Philip Guedalla

  Dogma, Beats, Stigma

  'Masters and Men' (1923) 'Ministers of State'

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• The old saying of work hard, play hard really works for me. For me it's all about focus. To get the Fire Starter Sessions digital book out it was about three months of intense focus. I let my friends know that I probably wouldn't be hanging out of returning their phone calls. It wasn't about doing the dishes, I ordered a lot of pizza, and I just completely put myself in the creative bubble.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Book, Hard Work, Fire

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• The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the position is reversed.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Bankers, Mercy, Position

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• There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.

  Ed Belfour

  Hockey, Way, Tough

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• The old saying that "success breeds success" has something to it. It's that feeling of confidence that can banish negativity and procrastination and get you going the right way.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Confidence, Procrastination

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• There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

  Pat Summitt

  Champion, Uncomfortable, Willing

  Pat Head Summitt, Sally Jenkins (2013). “Sum It Up: A Thousand and Ninety-Eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective”, p.168, Crown Archetype

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• There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.

  Kathy Whitworth

  Golf, Player, Missing

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• There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived in the house. You got the privilege of living in the house if you served the master to exactly the way the master intended to have you serve him. That gave you privilege. Colin Powell is permitted to come into the house of the master, as long as he will serve the master according to the master's dictates. Now, when Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to hear, he will be turned back out to pasture.

  Harry Belafonte

  Long, House, Want

  "Belafonte on Bush, War and Wiretaps". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.alternet.org. February 3, 2006.

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• Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny Inspirational, Jobs, New York

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• There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

  John Keats

  Half, Use, Done

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.414, e-artnow

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• When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

  Charles Darwin

  Eye, Voice, People

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