Old Fogey Quotes

#1. Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.

Anonymous

#2. Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.

Judy Woodruff

#3. Teens' use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey's Analysis of a Teenager's View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

Danah Boyd

#4. We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

Bertrand Russell

#5. Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down ... not for a while, at least.

Josh Turner

#6. Good shareholder activists have incredible interest in the company because they own a lot of it.

Ben Horowitz

#7. Your life really begins when you learn to realize that no one else but you is responsible for your amazing life.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Every conflict reflects what each person most needs to learn in that moment.

Kenneth Cloke

#9. The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

Mark Twain

#10. The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they're going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.

Colin Quinn

#11. One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over.

Rachel Reiland

#12. Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.

Sylvia Clare

#13. It was not the caress of her lips the length of him was looking for, but the back of her throat.

Pauline Reage

#14. These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

George R R Martin

#15. Oh, you know what, it's an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.

Martin O'Malley

#16. If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life

Confucius