Top 100 Adage Quotes
#1. There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Terri Windling
#2. Something happens when your subconscious goes to work ... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.
Jon Voight
#3. There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.
Jon Ronson
#4. the Portuguese adage holds true: God writes straight on crooked lines.
James Martin
#5. That old adage, that "music is a universal language", is really true. Even if all of the lyrics are understood, they seem to connect with it really well and in some ways, more so.
William Fitzsimmons
#6. For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.
Jerry I. Porras
#7. The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.
Thomas Ligotti
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, "If it is to be, it is up to me." That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn't mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.
Jim Rohn
#13. As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions.
Jeremy Walker
#14. The old adage which says that it is 'whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.
Judith McNaught
#15. There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages
"Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.
Beryl Markham
#16. I like a quote given on a review from Robert Leonard- KCR Illustrated.
Never forget the adage, "You know you are telling the truth and are on to something special if it drives the far-left crazy and the extreme-right insane.
William Dunaway
#17. An adage worth repeating is also halfway to being irrelevant. You end up with something that is easy to say but not connected to behavior.
Ed Catmull
#18. The old adage says that it's better to be lucky than good. Apparently having the right network is better than both. At
J.D. Vance
#19. Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage?
William Shakespeare
#20. 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
#21. A lesser man might have begrudged
him that, but remembering the old adage, "The finder's goods shall
he retain / Nor mind the loser's dreadful pain," I rejoiced, rather, in his good
fortune.
Vinnie Tesla
#22. I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.
Scott Ritter
#23. As the old military adage goes, "If you're in a fair fight, you're doing it wrong.
Gary J. Byrne
#24. I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.
Mike Quigley
#25. The old adage about a leopard never changing its spots? Too fucking right
Sofia Tate
#26. He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project; he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of honor amongst thieves.
Emile Gaboriau
#27. That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
Yanni
#28. There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.
Jeremy Jordan
#29. You can't change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.
Madeleine Bunting
#30. My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.
Peter Hook
#31. A'ohe I pau ka 'ike I ka halau ho'okahi, she said. It was a popular hula adage that meant:All knowledge is not contained in only one school.
Wendy Wunder
#32. The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.
Niecy Nash
#33. I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'
Kamala Harris
#34. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
E. E. Cummings
#35. There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught.
Jerry Lawler
#36. The adage: "He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom," could never be applied to my profound and quiet master. Though
Paramahansa Yogananda
#37. If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.
Vincent De Paul
#38. It is a time-honored adage that love begats love ... cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#39. Forget the adage Win/Win and make a commitment to Learn/Learn. Win/Win is good, but implies an end. Once you win, then what? Learn/Learn creates a paradigm of ongoing value. This creates a Learn/Learn situation. I learn about you and you learn about me. And we learn from each other.
Ted Rubin
#40. The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.
John C. Danforth
#41. Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.
Tony Hawks
#42. 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
#43. Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
Joe Haldeman
#44. And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
Trevanian
#45. The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'
Julia Glass
#46. You know the old adage: give a woman a bag and she'll fill it for a day. Teach a woman to pack and she'll fill every damn bag she owns (or something of that ilk).
Annmarie O'Connor
#47. A lie well told, as the Old Singhalese adage goes, is worth a thousand facts.
John Gimlette
#48. The old Wall Street adage "never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs" may apply to racehorses, but it's malarkey when it comes to houses.
Peter Lynch
#49. There's an old adage about everything looking better in the morning light. I'm guessing that whoever thought of that had never been punched in the face.
Tammy Blackwell
#50. A heart consumed with bitterness will turn to stone.
An old Lightkeepers adage, spoken by Boaz to Luka.
Rona V Flynn
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#55. There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.
Martin O'Malley
#56. The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first.
Kerry Stokes
#57. The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.
Joseph J. Ellis
#58. Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.
Karen Traviss
#59. An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.
Kelly Steed
#60. An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.
Elizabeth Letts
#61. 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
#62. The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
Peter Diamandis
#63. The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.
Alan Brennert
#67. A pointed illustration indeed of the old adage that "extremes meet".
Charlotte Bronte
#68. old military adage of the seven Ps, piss poor planning produces piss poor performance,
Glen R. Stansfield
#69. There's an adage in Silicon Valley that people who use online services are not the customers. We're the product. As
Dan Lyons
#70. I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
David Liss
#71. A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.
Thomas Huxley
#73. The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.
Kenneth Eade
#74. Mum repeated the old adage that money can't buy you everything ... before adding that she prefers using credit cards instead.
Kirkland Ciccone
#76. I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#77. Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
Wallace Pratt
#78. 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
#79. It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first.
Thomas Crum
#80. I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.
Clive Davis
#81. It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.
Ivan Doig
#82. People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
Timothy Ferriss
#83. I don't know what I believe anymore, and really, I try not to think about it. But the psychologists say that suicide is a behavioral contagion. It's the old adage "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you, too?" Apparently the answer is yes. To
Suzanne Young
#84. I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
Chelsea Clinton
#85. It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.
Emil Cioran
#86. The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.
Niecy Nash
#87. The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#88. Live and let live" is an old adage. "Live and help live" is a better one.
David O. McKay
#89. It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.
Gavin Newsom
#90. You know what Adage means?"
She asked me.
I shook my head no.
"It's a beautiful word," she said.
"People will tell you it means the purest love in the world, or love that consumes you, but I know what it really mean. It means love beyond reason, and that is the best love in the world.
Cameron Jace
#91. Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
Charles Dickens
#92. Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.
William Shakespeare
#93. The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it.
Val Bianco
#94. Just like the old adage
what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself
Shannon Hale
#95. I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
W. Earl Brown
#96. An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
Colin Meloy
#97. There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
#98. As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' ... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America.
Chuck Norris
#99. There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?
Simon Mainwaring
#100. For investors, the thesis is a Silicon Valley adage: Get millions of people to use the service first, and eventually it will find a way to make money.
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