Old Fogey Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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