Quotes About Saying

We have a saying in my culture. Dios no le diá, alas a los alacranes: God did not give wings to scorpions. No. They seem a little scary at first, but look how small they are, how bitter and ugly. They just have to crawl around in everybody else's mierda, waiting for the chance to sting someone. Pobrecita... don't it just suck to be a bottom feeder? Don't it just?

From what I have been saying, I trust it is clear that when I can permit realness in myself or sense it or permit it in another, I am very satisfied. When I cannot permit it in myself or fail to permit it in another, I am very distressed.

A sailor called Christopher followed his mistake and those who come later have added theirs. Now he's dead, and as some say of the dead, safe and sound in the legacy of the grave. 'Tis a childish saying, for they be yet present with the living. (211)

As well ask what good is life, what good is death? If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him—valar morghulis.

valar morghulis valar doeharis

Half of the Ullers are half-mad, the saying went, and the other half are worse.

Misery loves company, as someone unbearably trite said once.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it...

I've learned that when you get to be a certain age, you can get away with saying a lot of things, some of which wouldn't even be remotely funny if someone forty years younger said them. The Golden Girls ran for years off the same theory and basically used the same four jokes for seven marvelous seasons.

As old as the itch.

Diplomacy; the art of saying 'nice doggie' till you can find a rock.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom.

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

Are you really going to ask them?!" Sonar exclaimed. "Nah. As an ancient saying has it, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Truth and politics do not and cannot mix because politics is the art of saying only what needs to be said—and saying it in just the right way—in order to achieve a desired end.

I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.

Hurry up. You promised me a ride. Okay, that wasn't a good thing to say to him. Not in her bedroom. On your bike, she added hastily.

from the youth of today. She was beyond them. Her heritage, whatever it was, had forced her into adulthood. 'Nancy's a long time with that tea. You haven't been listening to what I've been saying.' 'Oh yes, I have, dear. Oh yes. I always listen to what . . . you . .

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell

People who drink light beer don't like the taste of beer — they just like to pee a lot.

I moved, looking for a cigarette. They were in my hand. I lit one. In a moment, I thought, I will say something. I will say something and then I will walk out of this room forever.