Old Saying Quotes - Page 2

• There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

  Larry Dossey

  Sight, Ordinary, Treasure

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony

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• In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.

  David Allen

  Rain, Entrepreneur, Mountain

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything.

  Halldór Laxness

  Stills, Despite, Knows

  Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books

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• I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

  Spalding Gray

  Moving, Psychosis, Camels

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

  Milton Friedman

  Hell Hath No Fury, Age, Needs

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.

  Matt Bomer

  Fire, Trying, Formulas

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 28, 2016.

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• In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

  Christopher Gorham

  Stronger, Way, Overcoming

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• We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Home, Independent, Thinking

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Character, Men, Said

  J. Vernon McGee (1984). “Genesis through Revelation: 5 Volumes Genesis - Revelation”, p.3046, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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