Old Saws Sayings

#1. Old saws have no teeth.

Cynthia Ozick

#2. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. He who steals my purse steals my right to live," was the reply, "old saws to the contrary. For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in doing so imperils my life.

Jack London

#4. I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

Mia Couto

#5. What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely ... Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#6. Eventually all things are known. And few matter.

Gore Vidal

#7. I felt like a new man; but I was disappointed with the photographic documentation because I still saw always the old self.

Arnulf Rainer

#8. "There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Robertson Davies

#9. How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

Barry Ritholtz

#10. One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'

Demetri Martin

#11. Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe.

Carl Sandburg

#12. I've always cared about my personal style and the way people perceive me. I know a lot of times people don't get the opportunity to talk to me, so they're just going to see what I wear, see how I'm dressed, see how I present myself.

Dwyane Wade

#13. I thought that young people had more problems than old people ... Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

Andy Warhol

#14. The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#15. Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as good as you and me. What's with that?

Max Barry

#16. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

John Hodgman

#17. Growing up, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson. I saw him at Wembley when I was 7 years old, it was my first proper show. He was like a god to me.

Matthew Healy

#18. More than any single issue, Gil's essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era.

Steve Almond

#19. Fair exchange, as the old saw goes is never robbery

Iceberg Slim

#20. I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

John Evelyn

#21. I was seven years old the first time I saw Michael Jackson. That changed everything.

Robin Thicke

#22. After 9/11, we had to look at the world differently. After 9/11, we had to recognize that when we saw a threat, we must take it seriously before it comes to hurt us. In the old days we'd see a threat, and we could deal with it if we felt like it or not. But 9/11 changed it all.

George W. Bush

#23. The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people.

Daniel Pinkwater