Fogey Quotes & Sayings

I still believe in the old-school show thing no frills, no fancy equipment just a guitar and some amps and some drums, and throw it out there and do it the best you can in a live sense, because it's easy to make records. But the live show is where you really show if you've got the balls to do it. — Shelby Lynne

They were four clean-cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort, and that they bored him, too. He could not make them shut up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed. — Joseph Heller

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

Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me and I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life. — Kristin Kreuk

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

Poor William!" said he, "dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had seen him bright and joyous in his young beauty, but must weep over his untimely loss! To die so miserably; to feel the murderer's grasp! How much more a murderer, that could destroy such radiant innocence! Poor little fellow! one only consolation have we; his friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest. The pang is over, his sufferings are at an end for ever. A sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain. He can no longer be a subject for pity; we must reserve that for his miserable survivors. — Mary Shelley

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

As one Saudi professor sternly tells his co-religionists, Only the writings of a practising Muslim are worthy of our attention. — Tom Holland

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

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

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it. — Mark Twain

Maybe one day we'll get married and we'll have a small house just for us, we'll write crazy books and we'll be famous. — Cristina Nemerovschi

I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!' — Taylor Schilling