Quotes About Adages

#1. Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively
over and over and over!

David R. Wommack

#2. Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him.

Patti Smith

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

Jon Voight

#4. It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

Garth Brooks

#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. Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.

Randy Travis

#7. Sometimes bad is bad.

Huey Lewis

#8. Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions to old adages of achievement. Persevering day in, day out improves techniques, but resting one day causes lapses. This must be prevented.

Mas Oyama

#9. If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#10. The only real person you need to know is you.

Alice Cooper

#11. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Bill Gross

#12. The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.

Bob Marley

#13. Truth is never far behind.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. Expand the mind, seek and you shall find.

Killah Priest

#15. The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

Warren Zevon

#16. There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

Connie Francis

#17. You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

Frank Zappa

#18. Paranoia, the destroyer.

Ray Davies

#19. Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

Garth Brooks

#20. That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Yanni

#21. There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Jeremy Jordan

#22. When love is true there is no truer occupation.

Gordon Lightfoot

#23. It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

Samantha Bond

#24. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

E. E. Cummings

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

Jerry Lawler

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

Vincent De Paul

#27. Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Elvis Presley

#28. Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie.

Fiona Apple

#29. The naked truth is still taboo.

Bob Dylan

#30. Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real.

Dan Fogelberg

#31. Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

Clay Walker

#32. Anger destroys your soul.

Marvin Gaye

#33. Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

Bob Dylan

#34. When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

Van Morrison

#35. Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

Big Boi

#36. Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

Linda Ronstadt

#37. The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#38. It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far.

Madonna Ciccone

#39. Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

Billy Joel

#40. I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#41. A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

Robert Palmer

#42. 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

#43. It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

Peter Gabriel

#44. If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

Ozzy Osbourne

#45. Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

Gene Pitney

#46. When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

Ben Harper

#47. We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Bonnie Raitt

#48. Tweets are not diseased rings of glitchy minds. They're epigrams, aphorisms, maxims, dictums, taglines, captions, slogans, and adages. Some are art, some are commercial; these are forms with integrity.

Virginia Heffernan

#49. 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

#50. Forget the adage buy low and sell high.

William O'Neil

#51. If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

Gordon Lightfoot

#52. Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

Stevie Nicks

#53. If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

James Brown

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

Gavin Newsom

#55. Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.

Robert Palmer

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

William Shakespeare

#57. Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

Don McLean

#58. A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

Stevie Nicks

#59. Love will abide, take things in stride.

Linda Ronstadt

#60. In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

David Bowie

#61. Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

Bob Dylan

#62. The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

Henry Rollins

#63. Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

Paul McCartney

#64. Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#65. Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

Bob Marley

#66. An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Bruce Springsteen

#67. You'll never be greater than yourself.

Bob Dylan

#68. Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

Robert Palmer

#69. With few words, one can speak the truth.

Bryan Adams

#70. When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

Lou Reed

#71. Make a destination of the greater truth.

Bob Seger

#72. Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt?

Ashlee Simpson

#73. The heart says what only the heart knows.

Lou Reed

#74. Age doesn't make a man.

Roger Miller

#75. Follow the rules or follow the fools.

Tupac Shakur

#76. Stay free of petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road.

Bob Dylan

#77. Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Bob Dylan

#78. Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

Frank Zappa

#79. Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

Joe Walsh

#80. I have found the old adages to be true. One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back. I am fortunate. I have been pulled back. I walk once more in trueness to myself."
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Robin Hobb

#81. The same thing. I feel like such a fool to discover it only now. So blatantly obvious, right in front of my face. Another of Henri's adages: Those things that are most obvious are the very things we're most likely to overlook. But Henri knew.

Pittacus Lore

#82. The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.

Michael Jackson

#83. Everything is trust, all the rest is dust.

Gordon Lightfoot

#84. Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

Ray Davies

#85. Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

Garth Brooks

#86. The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.

Pete Townshend

#87. To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Gordon Lightfoot

#88. If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

Todd Rundgren

#89. Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

James Thurber