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Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.
— William Shakespeare
A heart consumed with bitterness will turn to stone. An old Lightkeepers adage, spoken by Boaz to Luka. — Rona V Flynn
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
— Peter Diamandis
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.
— Charlie Trotter
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
— Colin Meloy
Potatoes have much more staying power than caviar.
— Mark Helprin
The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.
— Clive Davis
The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
The adage: "He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom," could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though
— Paramahansa Yogananda
There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.
— Mark Zandi
Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
A pointed illustration indeed of the old adage that "extremes meet".
— Charlotte Bronte
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
— Alice Roosevelt Longworth
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure ... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
— Harold W. Dodds
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)
— Elizabeth Gilbert
There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.
— Natalie Coughlin
I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.
— Mike Quigley
Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.
— Alexander McCall Smith
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
— George Washington
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
— Kerry Stokes
Mum repeated the old adage that money can't buy you everything ... before adding that she prefers using credit cards instead.
— Kirkland Ciccone
old military adage of the seven Ps, piss poor planning produces piss poor performance,
— Glen R. Stansfield
There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.
— Gene Simmons
Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
— Alan Brennert
Forget the adage buy low and sell high.
— William O'Neil
The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
— Kenneth Eade
There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.
— Jeremy Jordan
As the old Ranger adage went If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.
— John Flanagan
remember the old adage "You can't judge a book by its cover"? I'm here to tell you that's complete bullshit
— Tim Castleman
It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it.
— Gordon Bethune
Suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, then would you, too?" Apparently, the answer is yes.
— Suzanne Young
If you hold to the adage, If at first you don't succeed, try try again, sky diving may not be your ideal sport.
— J.E. Thompson
We don't need less kids, just more middle managers ...
— Ryan Fitzpatrick
Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.
— Aeschylus
I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.
— Gavin Newsom
"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage.
— Krishnananda Saraswati
I followed the adage that if you really want to learn about someone, you should just shut up and listen.
— James Patterson
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
— Charles Dickens
Says a fine Greek adage, "is the gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom.")
— Will Durant
There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.
— Jon Ronson
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
— Jennifer Egan
Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true.
— Padma Lakshmi
There's a Nigerian adage that says 'no matter how long an okra plant grows it can never be taller than its owner'.
— S.A. David
responsive. She now realized that the old adage 'he who wants friends must show himself friendly' was right.
— Brenda Barrett
It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.
— Jane Swisshelm
An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.
— Elizabeth Letts
The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.
— Joseph J. Ellis
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.
— Vincent De Paul
There's an old adage that for every second too fast per mile in the first half of the race, you'll run at least 2 seconds slower at the end.
— Jeff Galloway
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
— Ambrose Bierce
Many mickles make a muckle.
— Ron Chernow
wash off the journey
— Okey Ndibe
There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.
— Frederick Weisel
Just like the old adagewhat you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself
— Shannon Hale
I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage.
— Josh Kilmer-Purcell
Northwest adage that "the weather doesn't dictate what you do - it only dictates what you wear while you do it.
— M.D. Grayson
What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
— E. E. Cummings
Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.
— Lynda Obst
That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.
— Alexander Hamilton
The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Each of us is like all of us and like no one else.
— Kamand Kojouri
As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.
— Rush Limbaugh
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
— Terri Windling
Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door? Nicci asked.
— Terry Goodkind
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.
— I.E. Castellano
