Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks Quotes

Cerise! Come and kiss me, you red haired harpy," Izrayl bellowed. She smiled and moved to kiss his stubbly cheek. He held her tight and squeezed.
"How goes it Old Dog," Cerise said fondly to her temporary captor.
"Still alive," he grinned salaciously at her. "And still young enough to learn some new tricks if you are the one doing the teaching."
"Try it and I will neuter you," Cerise threatened and tugged on his braid. "You dogs, all you think of is hunting, fighting and fucking."
"What else is there?" Izrayl growled in the back of his throat and raised an eyebrow at her suggestively. ~ Amy Kuivalainen

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks ~ William Camden

You can't teach an old dog new dog new tricks. Now,you can give an old dog new toys. And we've got one here! ~ Si Robertson

It is hard to teach an old dog tricks. ~ William Camden

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them. ~ Bill Cosby

Hey, you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Now, you can give an old dog new toys! And, hey, we've got one here. ~ Si Robertson

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks. ~ Will Ferrell

The greatest trick you can teach an old dog is how to learn new tricks. ~ J.S. Davey

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, ~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. ~ Barbara Holland

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. ~ Erica Jong

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct. ~ Jane Roberts

If the old dog barke he gives counsell.
[If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.] ~ George Herbert

You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy. ~ Dutch Schultz

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks. ~ Joseph Chamberlain

Death is like an old dog. He always knows when you are at his door. ~ Pseudonymous Bosch

All my makeup tricks are from modeling jobs! It's my favorite part of the job - learning new tricks! ~ Erin Heatherton

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks. ~ Eloisa James

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

You can say any fool thing to a dog and the dog will just give you this look that says, 'My GOSH, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that! ~ Dave Barry

Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family. ~ Peg Kehret

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead. ~ Mary Russell Mitford

Let the new faces play what tricks they will
In the old rooms; night can outbalance day,
Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,
The living seem more shadowy than they. ~ William Butler Yeats

Our experience with newly-minted MBAs has not been that great. Their academic records always look terrific and the candidates always know just what to say; but too often they are short on personal commitment to the company and general business savvy. It's difficult to teach a new dog old tricks. ~ Warren Buffett

I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian)
Well, you're never too old to learn. (Amanda)
You can't teach an old dog new tricks. (Kyrian)
There's no time like the present. (Amanda)
Time is of the essence. (Kyrian)
God helps those who help themselves. (Amanda)
You're not going to let me win this, are you? (Kyrian) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one. ~ Seung Sahn

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him. ~ John Galsworthy

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks. ~ Jonathan Gruber

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. ~ Dorothy Parker

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup. ~ Robert Frost

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home. ~ Doc Watson

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick. ~ Bill Hicks

I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs. ~ Wislawa Szymborska

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big. ~ Erica Jong

David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and
learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I
taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It
was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to
whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.' ~ Myron Tribus

When you've got videos up on Web sites that are literally shot the same day, the whole skate community knows right away when new tricks are invented or new techniques are available. ~ Tony Hawk

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. ~ Henry David Thoreau

My dog is so old, she now has a lot of cats. ~ Dana Gould

Brands are either built on reruns or coming attractions. The future has no road map while the past does. Creating a brand that blazes new trails can sometimes be bumpy but will also allow you to be the first to discover something new, something meaningful and something that makes others ask, "Why didn't we think of that?" Be very scared of "old tricks" and build a spirit of innovation. It's the "old tricks" that have the highest risk, not doing something bold. ~ David Brier

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything. ~ Colin Greenwood

I'm an absolute fan of 1970s New York in films like 'Mean Streets' and 'Dog Day Afternoon.' ~ Guillaume Canet

When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news. ~ Charles A. Dana

I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy dogs
I like dogs
A dog that is barking over the hill
A dog that is dreaming very still
A dog that is running wherever he will
I like dogs. ~ Margaret Wise Brown

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it. ~ Matthew Arnold

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago. ~ Elizabeth Chandler

LOOK AT HIM! Mum, LOOK! OUR NEW DOG! ISN'T HE A BEAUTY?"
"Another DOG!" came Maia's amazed voice. ~ Sonal Panse

An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect. ~ Harry Houdini

Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, make me one with everything. ~ New York Magazine

Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. ~ David Berkowitz

Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart. ~ Nash Buckingham

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire. ~ John Cleese

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching. ~ Dan Kimball

Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there. ~ Ian Dunbar

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable. ~ Ramez Naam

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. ~ Caroline Knapp

Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks. ~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Oh, Dog!" Lirael said plaintively, giving the hound a hug. "Why is everything so difficult?"
"It just is," said the Dog, woofling gently in her ear. "But sleep will make it seem easier. A new day will bring new sights and smells. ~ Garth Nix

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes. ~ Tom T. Hall

He has taught me the meaning of devotion. With him, I know a secret comfort and a private peace. He has brought me understanding where before I was ignorant. ~ Gene Hill

Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls. ~ Woody Allen

Though a new cloth makes you look new, when you see the old cloths, you remember the old life ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I took my dog for a walk ... all the way from New York to Florida ... I said to him "There now you're done." ~ Steven Wright

When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks. ~ Richard Beymer

Come on cats, let's go.
Let's teach those old dog cheap trick beatniks some new kicks and bottle up and blow. ~ Harry Whitewolf

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret. ~ Lene Hau

My very first tattoo was for my dog, Zora, who died in my arms in New York. Right where her heart stopped beating I got a "Z". ~ Cheyenne Jackson

The trick is growing up without growing old. ~ Casey Stengel

It's always new and astonishing when it's yours. Infatuation; sex; card tricks. ~ Robin Sloan

Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy. ~ Jenna Morasca

Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn. ~ Parker J. Palmer

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them. ~ Nicholas Cresswell

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog. ~ Beverley Mitchell

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~ Will Rogers

When I was 3 years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. ~ James Thurber

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles. ~ Henry David Thoreau

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? ~ Joe Abercrombie

The way an old dog finds his way back over miles and miles to his home when somebody trues to shove him off on a farm someplace, that is how I find my way back to the library. It's my place, even more than my place is. ~ Chris Lynch

Every new day comes with a new joy, a new plan and a new life, all to be directed by the same old God! You need a new dream, a new passion and a new hope to pursue your old destiny! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

How come dog and dog owner are so alike? ~ Hiroko Sakai

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing. ~ David B. Coe

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives. ~ Rita Rudner

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable. ~ Criss Jami

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law. ~ William James

To date, most things that I've seen use the internet as a delivery vehicle for old style teaching. We're taking steps in the direction - it'll be a long, iterative process - to create new kinds of educational experiences by using this new tool of the internet. ~ Rivka Galchen

...there are no new themes for a writer, only new ways of setting down old themes, new eyes to wander among old rocks. ~ Jim Crumley

But Golden's dark form in the doorway had imprinted something new and painful on the hard plates of her chest: that old devil, hope. The kind of hope that abandons you in your worst moments and is suddenly there again, weeks later, trailing you like the stubborn, slinking dog who will not take no for an answer. The kind of greedy hope that tricks you into believing that at least some of the things taken from you might be restored, that after everything, you might find your way back to something like happiness. ~ Brady Udall

A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates. ~ Josh Billings

No hawk swooping down upon his prey, no stag improvising new detours by which to trick the huntsman, no dog scenting game from afar is comparable in speed to the celerity of a salesman when he gets wind a deal, to his skill in tripping up or forestalling a rival, and to the art with which he sniffs out and discovers a possible sale. ~ Honore De Balzac

I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse. ~ Valerie June

I was born in Queens, New York. I've done every job you could think of in New York. Selling peanuts to Larry Fresh Fruit ices to dog walker to unloading trucks at the Jacob Javits Center. ~ Dito Montiel

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before. ~ Lady Gregory

If it would destroy [a 12-year-old boy] to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls? ~ Tony Porter

There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago. ~ Peter Drucker

Your dog's health is ultimately in your hands. ~ Jana Rade

Nothing ever dies

it only changes

into something else

like old songs

that blow gently

into new ears

to find new meanings ~ Nalini Priyadarshni

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Before you turn over a new leaf,
dog-ear the old one;
lest you forget. ~ J.Z. Bingham

They do tricks even I can't figure out. ~ Harry Houdini