Fuddy Quotes

#1. As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way ... It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.

Guido Palau

#2. Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny.

Frank Beddor

#3. At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

Marian McPartland

#4. Never to be outdone, my wife, who also happens to be a psychoanalyst and therefore a specialist in ambivalence, wrote the following to me: 'Dear Simon, Break a leg, or all your legs. I better brake fast. With all my love-hate, Jamieson (who is about to drive us off a cliff)

Simon Critchley

#5. I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

Shannen Doherty

#6. But why would it matter? We aren't ... or ... uh ... weren't ... "
Which is it, Jess? "Aren't" or "weren't"? Present or past tense? Now or then?
"We haven't been talking to each other."
Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.

Megan McCafferty

#7. Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

Helen Rowland

#9. Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#10. Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

Orson Scott Card

#11. Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Elbert Hubbard

#12. Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#13. There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.

Sir Fulke Greville