Old Wise Tale Quotes & Sayings

Are you aiming for our make-up to be
the shortest in history or what? — Kristen Ashley

So ended the tale of Dabasir the camel trader of old Babylon. He found his own soul when he realized a great truth, a truth that had been known and used by wise men long before his time. It has led men of all ages out of difficulties and into success and it will continue to do so for those who have the wisdom to understand its magic power. It is for any man to use who reads these lines. — George S. Clason

There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.' — Candice Olson

Confidence don't mean jack shit in the real world, sis," she once said. I feel myself finding the courage to trust those words more and more with every twist of the knife. Coincidentally, last Tuesday afternoon I was involuntarily exposed to the punch line of an old wise tale that goes something like: "There's beauty that can be found in everything." But why can't the insensitive cunt who said that ever find the courage to look in the mirror? Because poopycock, one might say. — Dave Matthes

We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that. — Barack Obama

Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair. — Sean Brady

The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people. — Jeff Henderson

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power. — Neal Shusterman

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself. — Damon Wayans

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. — Robert E.Lee

Pictures aren't made out of doctrines. Since the appearance of impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red ... But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections. — Claude Monet

There's death and life, you see. We all shine on. A leaf, a star, a song, a laugh. Notice the little things, because somebody is reaching out to you ... Somebody loves you. — Ben Sherwood

Success is doing everything you could the right way and saying man, I did the best I could - that's success. — Aries Merritt

There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to learn. And in that version of the tale perhaps things happened differently. But then, that is a women's tale, and it is never told to men. — Neil Gaiman

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council. — Kofi Annan

Any one episode, or even moment, in a person's life is so complex, with so many layers of past and present, desire and indifference, drift and drive, consciousness and unconsciousness, that language is the best means we've found of approaching that kind of complexity. — Ben Fountain