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

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Men, Good Man, Incredibles

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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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• 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 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 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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• There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Doe, Study, Happens

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.61, Moody Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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: 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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• 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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