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  • You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated. -- Peace Pilgrim
  • There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. -- Stephen Colbert
  • There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. -- Livy
  • There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck. -- Gerald R. Ford
  • There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. -- Pete Rose
  • There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) -- William Shakespeare
  • There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking. -- Leslie Nielsen
  • As the old saying goes, 'money is power' and the more money the government takes, the more power it has over individuals. -- Angela McGlowan
  • There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot. -- Sam Snead
  • There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane." -- Dave Barry
  • There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. -- John F. Kennedy
  • 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
  • That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails. -- Victoria Moran
  • 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
  • Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work. Then you drop off - you know, 'post-coital man is sad,' as the old saying goes. -- Tim Zuck
  • The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called 'deep truths', are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth. -- Niels Bohr
  • There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods. -- John Dewey
  • Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over. -- Clint Eastwood
  • 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
  • That's an old saying I just made up. -- Kenny Loggins
  • Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery. -- Nadia Giosia
  • Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting. -- Will Hobbs
  • Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.' -- Nadia Giosia
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  • The old saying is: 'Time off is a wrestler's worst enemy.' -- Ric Flair
  • There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good. -- Joe Lando
  • On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying -- Robert Jordan
  • My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • As the old saying goes, "sometimes loving someone means letting them go. -- Ellen Hopkins
  • Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. -- Philip Guedalla
  • At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying. -- Robert Jordan
  • Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved. -- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man. -- Michael Parenti
  • The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
  • It's an old saying that one still has to know something, despite everything. -- Halldór Laxness
  • There's an old American saying that says you can't beat somebody with nobody. -- Josef Joffe
  • I have an old saying that the harder I work, the luckier I get. -- John Engler
  • There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable. -- Pat Summitt
  • Sidwell, Parker and Duff are all coming back to pastures old, as the saying goes -- Stan Collymore
  • I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying. -- Lillie Langtry
  • As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places. -- George Takei
  • The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning. -- David Hackworth
  • The old saying that, "you are what you eat" extends beyond the body, and includes experiences. -- Bryant McGill
  • What was the old saying? If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you problems. -- P. C. Cast
  • The Warrior of the Light never forgets the old saying: The good little goat doesn't bleat. -- Paulo Coelho
  • There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady. -- John F. Kennedy
  • As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. -- Helen Palmer Geisel
  • There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. -- Alexander Pope
  • You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category. -- Al Gore
  • If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny. -- Sarah Silverman
  • I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous. -- Philip Treacy
  • There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up. -- George Burns
  • I believe in doing better work. Just like the old saying, 'You don't get older, you get better'. -- Michael Jackson
  • If you ever heard that old saying, where there's smoke there's fire; well that's a load of bull. -- Joe Teti
  • Congratulations! If I may be so bold Only 40 years to go Before you're a century old Just saying -- John Walter Bratton
  • There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it. -- Iain Banks
  • We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways. -- Edward Coke
  • There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it. -- Ben Stiller
  • You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me. -- Blake Lively
  • Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper. -- Dana Gould
  • There's an old Ritadarion saying. You're never more alive than when you walk hand in hand with death. (Syn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. -- Walter Cronkite
  • My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent. -- Samuel Foote
  • Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all. -- Henry Rollins
  • The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then, -- Anders Behring Breivik
  • I'm not saying Martha Stewart is old, but she needs a new Walker more than the 'Fast and Furious' franchise. -- Natasha Leggero
  • There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.(King Pelles the Sure) -- Peter S. Beagle
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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
  • There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. -- Joe Namath
  • What's that old cowboy saying? Never was a horse that couldn't be rode, never was a man who couldn't be throwed. -- John Dunning
  • 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
  • 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
  • In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems. -- Amy Hill Hearth
  • 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
  • As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway. -- Alastair Reynolds
  • "Isn't it fun getting older?" is really a terrible fallacy. That's like saying I prefer driving an old car with a flat tire. -- Katharine Hepburn
  • 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
  • Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means. -- Andrea Tantaros
  • There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die. -- Pol Pot
  • 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
  • There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired. -- George Carlin
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something. -- Kanye West
  • I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea. -- Harold E. Varmus
  • 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
  • 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
  • That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite. -- Jeff Beck
  • Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatianaʹs funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen -- Richelle Mead
  • I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life." -- John C. Maxwell
  • Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water. -- Neville Cardus
  • I liked the idea of writing a song saying I'm happy with who I am, and I don't mind if people think I'm some old git. -- Marc Almond
  • I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated! -- Martin Freeman
  • Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • 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
  • But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want to read. -- William Zinsser
  • 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
  • You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker". -- John Hodgman
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  • You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave. -- Dylan Brody
  • As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. -- George Eliot
  • Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire! -- Michel de Montaigne
  • What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day. -- Daniel Barenboim
  • When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned. -- Lee Haney
  • 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
  • I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. -- Gustav Stresemann
  • I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was. -- Tim Burton
  • He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? -- Stephen King
  • I love London. I know it's an old saying but there's always something to do, so much so that when you live here you end up not actually doing much! -- Clive Rowe
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