Top 89 Quotes About Adages: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Adages

#1. 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

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

Bill Gross

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

Samantha Bond

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

James Thurber

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

David R. Wommack

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

Don McLean

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

Bob Marley

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

Stevie Nicks

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

Linda Ronstadt

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

David Bowie

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

Bob Dylan

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

Henry Rollins

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

Paul McCartney

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

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

Ben Harper

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

William Shakespeare

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

Robert Palmer

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

Gavin Newsom

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

James Brown

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

Stevie Nicks

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

Gordon Lightfoot

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

William O'Neil

#26. 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

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

Bonnie Raitt

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Gordon Lightfoot

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

Pete Townshend

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

Garth Brooks

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

Ray Davies

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

Gordon Lightfoot

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

Michael Jackson

#36. Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky.

Joe Walsh

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

Frank Zappa

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

Bob Dylan

#39. An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

Bruce Springsteen

#40. Follow the rules or follow the fools.

Tupac Shakur

#41. Age doesn't make a man.

Roger Miller

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

Lou Reed

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

Ashlee Simpson

#44. Make a destination of the greater truth.

Bob Seger

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

Lou Reed

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

Bryan Adams

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

Robert Palmer

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

Bob Dylan

#49. Truth is never far behind.

Madonna Ciccone

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

E. E. Cummings

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

Gordon Lightfoot

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

Jeremy Jordan

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

Yanni

#54. 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

#55. Paranoia, the destroyer.

Ray Davies

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

Frank Zappa

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

Connie Francis

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

Warren Zevon

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

Killah Priest

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

Jerry Lawler

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

Bob Marley

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

Alice Cooper

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

Steven Curtis Chapman

#64. Sometimes bad is bad.

Huey Lewis

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

Randy Travis

#66. 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