Top 13 Etymology Old Sayings

#1. Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.

Evan Esar

Etymology Old Sayings #320205
#2. Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Bertha Von Suttner

Etymology Old Sayings #589753
#3. I'm not obliged to defend your dignity. Provided you have any.

Rachel Caine

Etymology Old Sayings #632320
#4. Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.

Warren Buffett

Etymology Old Sayings #676807
#5. I have no sure sight of God's glory except through his word. The word mediates the glory, and the glory confirms the word.

John Piper

Etymology Old Sayings #730132
#6. I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

Tupac Shakur

Etymology Old Sayings #769536
#7. Whatever is conventional, I am the opposite. So if you want to walk in a straight line, I am going to walk in zigzags. If you want to throw a 1-2, I'll throw a 2-1.

Tyson Fury

Etymology Old Sayings #769649
#8. You just put one foot in front of the other and 'opefully not in yer mouth.

Mary Weber

Etymology Old Sayings #1120756
#9. Vimes had believed all his life that the Watch were called coppers because they carried copper badges, but no, said Carrot, it comes from the old word cappere, to capture.

Terry Pratchett

Etymology Old Sayings #1136339
#10. The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Hannah Arendt

Etymology Old Sayings #1486563
#11. Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

Etymology Old Sayings #1585108
#12. After a while, a woman can find the satin edges of grace in tragedy's wool blanket.

Susan Reinhardt

Etymology Old Sayings #1709599
#13. Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

Nikki Reed

Etymology Old Sayings #1805608

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