Time Honoured Quotes

#1. You know ... confessing to avoid prosecution is a time-honored strategy.
I don't want to be honored with time. Honor me with "slap-on-the-wrist," or maybe even "scot free.

Howard Tayler

#2. I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

Robert Smith

#3. People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses.

Jodi Picoult

#4. A poet looks at the world as a man looks at a woman.

Wallace Stevens

#5. Smashing things up is a time-honoured particle-physicist method of finding out more about them.

Jon Butterworth

#6. Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

Robert Genn

#7. But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

Marisha Pessl

#8. Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

Deepak Chopra

#9. I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.

Jim Webb

#10. So now Stephen must actually learn at first hand hwo straight can run the path of true love, in direct contradiction to the time-honoured proverb. Must realize more clearly than ever, that love is only permissible to those who are cut in every respect to life's pattern.

Radclyffe Hall

#11. Fiction, the time-honoured resource of the ill-at-ease, would have to come to her aid,

Anita Brookner

#12. They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people.

Ashok Ferrey

#13. When I turned about 14, I developed a friendship with this guy whose mom was the secretary to Ernest Angley, the faith healer, who's very popular in the Midwest. He had a television show, and he was sort of like Liberace mixed with Jerry Falwell - very glitzy, very high-tech.

Marilyn Manson

#14. The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. (But does time honour things? Sabine would teach me to ask. How? Why? And if it does, ought it to go on doing so? And for how long?)

A.P.

#16. Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words ...

Yasunari Kawabata

#17. Come on, Rachel! Jenks shrilled. ou're a badass, not a bad witch!

Kim Harrison

#18. Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Densey Clyne