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It 'appens to be true. An' if'n yew want ter stay moi friend, yew'd best 'old yer turpitudinous twaddle of a tongue an' listen fer once.
— Peter St. John
Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.
— Franz Grillparzer
Tis well to be merry and wise,'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new. — Charles Robert Maturin
It is true what people say, the young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.
— Jose Saramago
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman.
— Robert Downey Jr.
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.
— Phyllis Diller
Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.
— Michael Wilbon
The old saw that "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me" does not, in fact, hold true.
— Gerry Spence
Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
— Alexander Pope
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
— Rick Springfield
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
— Charlie Trotter
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
— Thomas Dekker
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
— Sergio Aragones
Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
— John Heywood
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
I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.
— Richard Strauss
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
— Louis L'Amour
I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true.
— Robert Novak
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
But when a person is upset, old patterns of behavior emerge. It's true for me too, except my coping mechanisms are different
— Sylvain Reynard
Ain't too young for nothing." "In some societies that would be true. Different places. Different times. You'd be old enough to be a wife and mother.
— Karen Marie Moning
Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.
— Richard Sherman
The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.
— Woody Allen
If the bards of old the true has toldThe sirens have raven hair.
But over the earth since art had birth,
They paint the angels fair. — L.M. Montgomery
The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
— Stephen King
It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.
— Bruce Forsyth
Old love, old love, / How can I be true? / Shall I be faithless to myself / Or to you?
— Sara Teasdale
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
— Emma Goldman
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
— Thomas Jefferson
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
— E.A. Bucchianeri
-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking? ...
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Even the robin and the martin come back, year after year, to their old nests; shall a woman be less true hearted than a bird?
— James Fenimore Cooper
Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Listen you little turd, don't tell me my business. It's not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled. "But Green ... Yikes, that stings! — Judy Byington
The things I haveare nameless,
old and true;
they may not be named;
few may live and know. — Hilda Doolittle
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.
— Mary Catherwood
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
— George R R Martin
They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true.
— Padma Lakshmi
Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!
— Arthur Hugh Clough
It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646
— Charles Dickens
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
— Stephen King
Old fashions please me best; I am not so niceTo change true rules for odd inventions. — William Shakespeare
The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.
— Douglas Wilson
True surrender is giving up an old way for a new way.
— Christopher Freeman
everyone lives until they're old," I argued, knowing it was all too true. Gram didn't blink. "Not everyone dies young.
— Laurel Ulen Curtis
There is no conflict between the Old and the New; the conflict is between the False and the True.
— Henry Van Dyke
We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old, but because they are true.
— Barry Goldwater
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
— Walter Raleigh
It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
— Booth Tarkington
Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Old stories often turn out to be true.
— Arthur Machen
