An Adage Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. There's an adage in Silicon Valley that people who use online services are not the customers. We're the product. As

Dan Lyons

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Something happens when your subconscious goes to work ... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

Jon Voight

#10. 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

#11. For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

St. Jerome

#12. 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

#13. Live and let live" is an old adage. "Live and help live" is a better one.

David O. McKay

#14. 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

#15. An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

Colin Meloy

#16. There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

Peter Hargreaves

#17. There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.

Seneca.

#18. 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

#19. There's an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.

Frederick Weisel

#20. An ancient adage warns, Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.

Fred Brooks

#21. 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

#22. Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. An old adage says that a good rider can hear his horse speak and a great rider can hear his horse whisper.

Elizabeth Letts

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. A heart consumed with bitterness will turn to stone.
An old Lightkeepers adage, spoken by Boaz to Luka.

Rona V Flynn

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught.

Jerry Lawler

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's something they don't forgive. And every American carries a gun. If they catch you, a stranger, looking them in the face, they will shoot.

Okey Ndibe

#38. There's an old Internet adage that as soon as you compare something to the Nazis you lose the argument.

Jon Ronson