Quotes About Adages

Proverbs are the people's wisdom.

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

We even discovered that our fathers had the same favorite saying: "Money talks. It says goodbye.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

MASTERING MONEY With the advent of derivatives and an increasingly complex economy, mastering money has become essential to surviving in the world economy. With low interest rates and an uncertain stock market, the old adages of saving and investing for the long term make no sense.

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The thief's underworld, which is different from that of the mafiosi, gang bangers, and racketeers, has many adages and observations. If you can't do the time don't mess with crime is the best-known. Another is: A thief's nerve is in direct proportion to his financial condition. Or: Hard times make hard people.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Si d'aventure, tel se prend à douter de la fraternité des hommes et de l'humanité commune à tous les peuples et à toutes les races, qu'il parcoure leurs adages et leurs préceptes : il se rassurera.

whether it's the bitter treasury of folk wisdom or sweet adages and dicta, whether it's the dust of the bedamned or the dismay of the beloved, the sacks of bums or Judas's sums, whether it's movement from or standing by, the lies of the defrauded or the truths of the defamed, whether war or peace, whether stages or studios, taints or torments, whether darkness or light, hatred or pity, in life and beyond it—whether it's any of these, or anything else, you have to make good sense of it.

My grandmother used to always say, if you can't be on time, be early.

Cliches are cliches because they are true.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.

Good sayings are like pearls strung together.

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.