Quaint Old Sayings

#1. ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude ...

Ambrose Bierce

#2. We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

Matt Shea

#3. Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Thomas Hughes

#4. Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

Polly Bergen

#5. I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.

Angelina Jolie

#6. Just because the kid's cute, doesn't mean you're not the father.

Will Smith

#7. I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.

Willie Aames

#8. Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

George Mason

#9. The two of them were stoic and stone-faced and ten feet apart, currently not even looking at each other, but Zuzana had the impression of a pair of magnets pretending not to be magnets. Which, you know, only works until it doesn't.

Laini Taylor

#10. Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

Lord Byron

#12. I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Allan Gurganus

#13. This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.

Douglas Alexander

#14. After all you didn't answer "Why?", why you close and reject it... "Not Interested", doesn't sound like a reason, does it?

Deyth Banger

#15. He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The curious news. The quaint concerns.

Cormac McCarthy

#16. The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

Mooji

#17. My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play.

Marcel Proust

#18. Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you're not allowed to hit 'em with a shovel.

Terry Pratchett

#19. If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?

Frank Warren

#20. The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

Curt Sachs

#21. I try to tell people that just because you're buff and cut doesn't mean you're healthy.

Sylvester Stallone

#22. How quaint the old twenty-four-hour clock began to look to our eyes, how impossibly clean-cut, with its twin sets of twelve, as neat as walnut shells. How had we believed, we wondered, in such simplistic things?

Karen Thompson Walker

#23. Red certainly is the family color. From my mother and my grandmother, I've learned a lot of little tricks - the significance of color and lipstick being one of them. I started skating when I was eight years old, and my mom did my makeup for me back then.

Gracie Gold

#24. A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.

William Makepeace Thackeray