Old Saying Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• The old saying is true: If you have only the Word, you dry up. If you have only the Spirit, you blow up. But if you have both, you grow up.

  Jim Cymbala

  Growing Up, Blow, Dry Up

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• A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Sports, Strong

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• To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

  Emily Post

  Home, Men, House

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn’t mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

  Patricia Hampl

  Pain, Mean, Secret

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• But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:
  Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Men, Black

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. The Fourth Edition. Revised and Augmented (with a Glossarial Index) by the Editor of Dodsley's Collection of Old Plays”, p.277

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• There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Father, Government

  State Department press conference on April 21, 1961. "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., p. 262, 1965.

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• You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

  Vanilla Ice

  Change, Stars, Names

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• There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Done, Pieces

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 18, 2013.

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• There’s an old saying: that which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. I don’t believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things — your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you’re broken.

  J-Ax

  Believe, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Sons of Anarchy: Sovereign". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, Get Better, I Believe

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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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• 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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• 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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• Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Snakes, Devil

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• There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Teacher, Doctors, Want

  "On the moral high ground' by Edward Marriott, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2008.

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• I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get.

  John Engler

  Positive, Work, Inspirational Life

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• You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Ideas, Discipline

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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 that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

  David Hackworth

  War, Taken, Racket

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• There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

  Joe Namath

  Football, Player, Talking

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• It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

  Greg Rusedski

  Golf, Bigs, Retired

  "I'm not coming back ever. You can quote me". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2009.

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• There's an old saying that the government is your partner from birth, but they don't get to come to all the meetings.

  John C. Malone

  Government, Birth, Partnership

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• I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.

  Scott Porter

  Men, Looks, Actresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

  Ben Stiller

  Hollywood, Use, Film

  FaceBook post by Ben Stiller from Dec 02, 2012

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