Old Adage Quotes

#1. Just like the old adage
what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself

Shannon Hale

#2. 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

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

Seneca.

#4. Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door? Nicci asked.

Terry Goodkind

#5. Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

Clara Barton

#6. 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

#7. The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Glenn Hoddle

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. If we provide the young with a strong foundation, we can leave behind a legacy substantially greater than most are able to bequeath. As for the women, the old adage that you invest in a woman, you invest in a generation, still rings true today.

Joyce Banda

#11. 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

#12. Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

William Shakespeare

#13. It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.

Gavin Newsom

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

David O. McKay

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. The old adage "If you can't beat them, join them", to me is just a way of saying that you're weak. My motto is : "If you can't beat them, then you aren't fighting dirty enough".

Quinn Loftis

#19. It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

Hannah Arendt

#20. 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

#21. Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses.

Mia Love

#22. Be careful not to give too much credence to the old adage that time heals. Mark my word. It's God that heals. Time only tells.

Beth Moore

#23. The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

Thomas Sowell

#24. The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

Richard Carlson

#25. 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

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. 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

#28. responsive. She now realized that the old adage 'he who wants friends must show himself friendly' was right.

Brenda Barrett

#29. As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.

Kim Mitchell

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Frederick Weisel

#33. I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.

Dan Grajek

#34. One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

Barack Obama

#35. 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

#36. If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

Vincent De Paul

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

Jerry Lawler

#38. I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.'

Kamala Harris

#39. 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

#40. The old adage about a leopard never changing its spots? Too fucking right

Sofia Tate

#41. I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

Mike Quigley

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

Terri Windling

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Mum repeated the old adage that money can't buy you everything ... before adding that she prefers using credit cards instead.

Kirkland Ciccone

#55. The old adage that 'there are two sides to every story' is not true. There is a story for every storyteller.

Kenneth Eade

#56. 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

#57. A pointed illustration indeed of the old adage that "extremes meet".

Charlotte Bronte

#58. The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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

Elizabeth Letts

#60. 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

#61. The old adage applied: if God were in the details, Colonel Washington would have been there to greet him upon arrival.

Joseph J. Ellis

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. As the old Ranger adage went If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.

John Flanagan

#69. Keeping in mind the old mountain adage that the longer you take to set up your bivy site, the shorter the bivy you have to endure, we ended up taking two hours to dig the snow cave.

Erhard Loretan

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

Colin Meloy

#71. 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

#72. old military adage of the seven Ps, piss poor planning produces piss poor performance,

Glen R. Stansfield

#73. Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

Alan Brennert

#74. The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

Peter Diamandis

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

Rona V Flynn

#76. 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

#77. A lie well told, as the Old Singhalese adage goes, is worth a thousand facts.

John Gimlette

#78. As the old military adage goes, "If you're in a fair fight, you're doing it wrong.

Gary J. Byrne

#79. As the old programming adage goes: you had a problem and tried to solve it using regular expressions.

Jeremy Walker

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

Jon Ronson