Top 100 Out Of Date Sayings
#1. So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination.
Joseph Rotblat
#2. Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#3. The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of hell, the reward of heaven, but the rules of the holy books are out of date and often barbaric.
Richard Dawkins
#4. Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
Alan Bennett
#5. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
Henry David Thoreau
#6. I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
John Lithgow
#7. All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.
Rudyard Kipling
#8. Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.
Eve Curie
#9. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde
#11. Saw the face of Robert Lee. Incredible eyes. An honest man, a simple man. Out of date. They all ride to glory, all the plumed knights.
Michael Shaara
#12. We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.
Louis O. Kelso
#13. The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.
George Will
#15. Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.
Lillian Wald
#16. I bought an Apple iPad and it was out of date sooner than a real apple would have been. We
Karl Pilkington
#17. Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.
Ralph Nader
#18. New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
Ben Huh
#20. Of course
the New Testament is very small.
Its mouth opens four times
as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,
yet somehow man-made ...
Anne Sexton
#22. to worship Jesus is out-of-date. What we now need to do is to take Him down from the cross and Live Jesus, Be Jesus, or we got nada-nada-nothing!
Victor E. Villasenor
#23. We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.
Eric Martinot
#24. And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.
Izaak Walton
#26. The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
Albert Camus
#27. All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.
Alan Bennett
#29. I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.
Art Spiegelman
#30. For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
Laurent Fabius
#31. I love Los Angeles. I love when people make fun of it. I think, 'Good, don't come.' All the jokes about it feel out of date.
Mary McCormack
#32. When the adversaries of Erasmus had got the Trinity into his edition, they threw by their manuscript as an old almanac out of date.
Isaac Newton
#33. What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
Oscar Wilde
#34. Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.
Alan Bennett
#35. And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
Charlton Heston
#36. The Bible is a book of promises, and unlike the books of men, it doesn't change or get out of date. The message I have been proclaiming for many years is basically the same - and God does not lie!
Billy Graham
#37. Amusement and half pleasure, on their faces. Miller signed in and crawled through the awkward Ojino-Gouch-style airlock, seventy years out of date and hardly larger than
James S.A. Corey
#38. Although we intuitively know the world has changed, most leaders reflect a model and leader development process that are sorely out of date. We often demand unrealistic levels of knowledge in leaders and force them into ineffective attempts to micromanage.
Stanley McChrystal
#39. So let me get this straight. Government can't track illegals and out of date visas, but they know who you called this morning?
Chuck Woolery
#40. Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.
Eleanor Rathbone
#41. Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded. That
Thomas S. Kuhn
#42. We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.
Charles Stross
#43. The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.
Pope Pius XII
#45. The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
Theodore Parker
#46. Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.
Michael Crichton
#47. Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality ... Experience is the opposite of being creative.
Paul Arden
#48. Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.
Ellen G. White
#49. Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
Edward St. Aubyn
#50. You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman Rushdie
#51. I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
Geoffrey Fisher
#52. In Elizabethan England you will only find small codpieces. Large ones, stuffed with wool and looking like an erect male member, are out of date
Ian Mortimer
#53. It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.
Roger Von Oech
#54. Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
Victor Hugo
#55. The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
Agatha Christie
#56. They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
John Hume
#57. The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
#58. The image of my face I hold in my mind is always about 10 years out of date.
Jeremy Hardy
#59. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and out-of-date distractions.
Thomas Ligotti
#60. Sometimes I think the family I was brought up in was 100 years out of date.
Anthony Horowitz
#61. The American conception of advertising is to arouse desires and stimulate wants, to make people dissatisfied with the old and out-of-date and by constant iteration to send them out to work harder to get the latest model-whether that model be an icebox or a rug or a new home.
Bruce Barton
#62. Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....
Ammon Shea
#63. Some instruments seemed like they were held together with duct tape and prayers. Everything looked out of date.
Eoin Colfer
#64. Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.
Billy Graham
#65. As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.
Margery Allingham
#66. If these out-of date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and held for the same sorts of reasons that now lead to scientific knowledge
Thomas S. Kuhn
#67. Marx is only anti-capitalist
in so far as capitalism is out of date. Another order must be established which will demand, in the name of
history, a new conformity. As for the means, they are the same for Marx as for Maistre: political realism,
discipline, force.
Albert Camus
#68. M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life.
Oscar Wilde
#69. His universe was an analogue being, probably as out of date as the gods are.
Steve Merrick
#70. The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
George Mikes
#71. In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
Douglas Coupland
#72. I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
Roy Jenkins
#73. The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.
Bob Rice
#74. Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions is an image of the world that sits unhappily between the manifest image and an out of date scientific image.11
James Ladyman
#75. Patriarchal life, you're out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!
Planningtorock
#76. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones
bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas.
C.S. Lewis
#77. The Bible is God's book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date.
Billy Graham
#78. They seem close, the stars, but they're far away. Their light is millions, billions of years out of date. Messages with no sender.
Margaret Atwood
#80. I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.
Arj Barker
#81. You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
Chris Crutcher
#82. Do you realize how many abusers are walking around unpunished? How many rape charges are dropped because of 'insufficient' evidence, or how many date rapists get away with what they've done because the victim is too scared to tell anyone?
Elle Kennedy
#83. I think the most important recipe for a good date is just spending time with somebody and really connecting and feeling like the best version of yourself regardless of what you may be doing.
Sophia Bush
#84. If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.
Eva Mendes
#85. My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along.
"I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian.
Jefferson Bass
#86. It's easier to date a football player for sure. Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they're all at home. In basketball, they're on the road all the time.
Khloe Kardashian
#87. Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,
Brit Hume
#88. Our failure to bag the man-eater up to that date was not due to our having done anything we should not have done, or left undone anything we should have done.It could only be attributed to sheer bad luck.
Jim Corbett
#89. What happens in life is more important than the Time and Date ...
Ranu Das
#90. Love and I once had a great relationship, but I fear we've broken up. It cheated on me, wrecked my heart, and then went on to date other people. A lot of other people. And I can't stand to watch it, since love's going to cheat on them too.
David Levithan
#91. I was told by a girl once that I should teach a course on how to kiss properly. I thought that was really a nice compliment. I then asked her what she thought about my sexual prowess and she recommended I talk to a guy she used to date. Body blow.
Dane Cook
#92. He (life) got to his feet with a sudden jerk,
collected his blanket
and then darted away in such a great haste
that till this date, I've not seen him again.
Suman Pokhrel
#93. My last girlfriend was a Showgirl - But we eventually broke up because she wouldn't Tell me anything. Now I'm dating a girl who looks exactly like my grandma, only my girl older.
-James Lee Schmidt and Jarod Kintz
James Lee Schmidt
#94. In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.
Candace Kita
#95. I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more.
James Franco
#96. We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important.
David Zucker
#97. I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
Adam Levine
#98. He said if I was good enough to throw a perfect game, I'd be good enough to date his daughter.
Julie Cross
#99. Adept Lu spent a night at Stone Date, and the gatekeeper asked: Where are you from? From the House of Confucius, replied Lu. Isn't he the one who knows it's hopeless, but keeps trying anyway?
Confucius
#100. Okay, okay, you win. One-just one- date. But that's all." She didn't look at Josh, just stalked off toward the nearest exit. "Do you get all your dates by blackmail?"
"Nope," he said cheerily as he easily kept pace with her. "Only the ones that matter
Dani Harper
