If you walk into an auto lot and a vehicle is 20 years old and has only 50,000 miles, that should set some alarms off. The old saying about the little old lady who drove only to church on Sundays, well, there aren't too many of those. If a deal seems just too good to be true, it probably is.
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Related I think it should be an unknown (actress) and about 20 years old. People have talked about Sandra Bu... LYNDA CARTER If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. GARY ADLER Imagine you're a three-year-old and you walk into a hospital. Suddenly, things don't smell very well... JOHN ANASTOS The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. CARYL HASKINS I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do s... ELAINE PAGELS It?s just a lot of little things that have accumulated. I?m just too old for it. If you don?t have a... ARTHUR BERGER A young Saint - an old Devil, (mark this, an old saying, and as true a one as, a Young Whore an old ... FRANCOIS RABELAIS Listen, honey, there are some people who probably do think of me as a little old lady and I'm afraid... DOROTHY MCGUIRE Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. ELIAS CANETTI See that fella over there? He's 20 years old. In 10 years, he's got a chance to be a star. Now that ... CASEY STENGEL He drove like an old man. He would only go 55 miles an hour. And he didn't drive fast. That was just... DEBRA NEEL When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. ... SARAH LOUISE DELANY Dexter has been getting some quality at-bats. He's very poised and confident for a 20-year-old. He t... JOE MIKULIK It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true, And home can be a palace grand, or just a pl... LOUIS UNTERMEYER I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and ... LEMMY KILMISTER It is not just a question of experience, nor is it a question of age ... There are some people who l... DARIO FO One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived... HORACE WALPOLE Who is too old to learn is too old to teach PROVERB Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there ... LISA KLEYPAS It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have r... ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA Today, I saw an old chubby wrinkly lady and wish you would be that lady for me when I am old chubby ... LUVLYNN From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. CANDACE BUSHNELL There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much wh... TAMER HASSAN It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old lo... SOURCE UNKNOWN That you've essentially built a terminal exclusively for them, that's a problem. There is an old bus... DOUGLAS BAIRD There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into fe... ROBERT BENCHLEY You’re never too old to play. You’re only too old for low-rise jeans. ELLEN DEGENERES You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans. ELLEN DEGENERES From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be truehe probably is. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the sta... TINA FEY Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a ... WOODY HARRELSON I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials. SAM ELLIOTT You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think tha... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre mu... JIM DALE Only four of the current 20-man squad for this last match will be too old for the next campaign, so ... BRIAN FLYNN Democrats want tax relief in the context of a real budget with real numbers. If it looks too good to... MARTIN FROST I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn&... JOANNA LUMLEY I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out a... L.M. MONTGOMERY Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn abou... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose. WILLIAM MORRIS Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. JAN MARGOSIAN It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old ALBERT SMITH The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow y... NIECY NASH There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. STEPHEN COLBERT There's a little danger if you start to walk on a really young flow that's just a few minutes old. T... DON SWANSON Here's my system. Music that's five years old should be a nickel. Music's that's three to four years... PERRY FARRELL Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not onl... EPICURUS There were barely any Americans in the NHL at that point, and they only had the six teams - so there... BILL SEABURY Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who... ROALD DAHL It's hard to think he is still only 21 years old. You've got to be impressed with him on the field a... BRIAN SCHNEIDER There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick. KIN HUBBARD There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick KIN HUBBARD I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions t... ELIZABETH GILBERT Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning t... CLIVE BARKER When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist... RAY BRADBURY There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that p... DAN BROWN My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a gre... LINWOOD BARCLAY Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed. TOBA BETA Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. CAROL REES It's only a few months old. It's real clear it was not an auto accident. MAGGIE WILSON It is the silence between the notes that makes the music; it is
the space between the bars that hol... OLD SAYING Tell that to the Marines--the sailors won't believe it. OLD SAYING A leap year
Is never a good sheep year. OLD SAYING There's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends
forsake us. OLD SAYING As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy
months will you have. OLD SAYING Fostering mother.
[Lat., Alma mater.] OLD SAYING Here's a health to you and yours who have done such things for us
and ours.
And when we and ours ... OLD SAYING Here's a health to all those that we love,
Here's a health to all those that love us,
Here's a... OLD SAYING The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we'r... ANGEL ACOSTA An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed i... NEAL STEPHENSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Sai... SHEL SILVERSTEIN When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five ... ETTA JAMES I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person... BETH DITTO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Any date you pick, someone is going to be too young or too old. And there needs to be a finite date. BRIGID DEVRIES The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some... ROBERT GOULET There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is... PLINY THE YOUNGER To be honest, I love watching some of the old cartoons and new ones that are popular. It's another w... SIMI SUNNY Those are just some examples but there are a lot of them. I believe that we appeal to many different... EMILY WRIGHT The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities ... ANTONIN SERTILLANGES I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you ... JOHN GREEN There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have bec... AL MADRIGAL A 12-year-old 20 years ago and a 12-year-old today are reading at very different levels. That's just... GREG RUCKA I didn't realize when I entered the tournament that I would be able to write it off as a recruiting ... JULIE GARNER I think Old Dominion is the only team that doesn't have an on-off switch. DEBBIE TAYLOR Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... MARGARET MITCHELL When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were o... SHERMAN ALEXIE Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with th... JONATHAN MABERRY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive ... CAITLIN ROSE In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old. GUILLERMO DEL TORO At only 20 years old I got married. I was still a kid myself, but in those times, if you got someone... DAVID SOUL It's like the old saying, when you sell you always expect a little more, and when you buy, you alway... FRANK STRONACH Said the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon. Said the little old man, I do that too. The li... SHEL SILVERSTEIN Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about... SOURCE UNKNOWN Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about... You've got to take off some of the old ugly facades and let there be glass and light. If you take th... LAURA MILLER
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