Quotes of: Old-adage Keyword

Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

Groucho Marx

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

George Osborne

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

George Santayana

In England, and all over Europe, and all over the world, actors act until they die. They get old, really old, and they're still working. They just keep doing it.

Christopher Walken

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Denis Diderot

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

David Lloyd George

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

Jack Klugman

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Jane Jacobs

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

Kirsten Dunst

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

Lea Thompson

In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

Fred Ward

The Old Man: [shouting] Don't anybody move! Hold it right there! The fuse is out.

A Christmas Story

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: You wanna play "hide the salami" with his old lady?

The French Connection

Gandhi: You're a temptress. Margaret Bourke-White: Just an admirer! Gandhi: Nothing is more dangerous, especially for an old man.

Gandhi

Rebecca: I remember this hat. This is from your little old lady phase!

Ghost World

Nervous Accountant: Are you going to shoot me? Anton Chigurh: That depends. Do you see me?

No Country for Old Men

Wendell: That's very linear Sheriff. Ed Tom Bell: Well, age will flatten a man.

No Country for Old Men

Carla Jean Moss: What's in the satchel? Llewelyn Moss: It's full of money. Carla Jean Moss: [sarcastically] Yeah, that'll be the day.

No Country for Old Men

"Managerial" Victim #2: [Viewing the dead bodies in the desert] These are some ripe petunias!

No Country for Old Men

[after being asked what his costume was] Major Giles Lacy: Strong man, Old man.

Rebecca