Old Saying Quotes

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

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.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

People make first judgments about people based on their appearance. There's an old saying, "The clothes make the man.".

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

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.

As the old saying goes, for somebody as famous as you, you don't need any introduction.

There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the United States will make its appearance in the same way.

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.

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!

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."

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'.

Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.

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

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