Quotes About Adage

I grew up listening to this adage that hard work never fails. It is very true of 'Adhoori.'

Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.

I composed balanced sentences and periodic sentences and practiced, till I was blue in the face, the English department adage, Vary your sentence structure. Amazingly enough, having a mix of long and short sentences, along with topic-body-conclusion paragraph structure, did not automatically make my prose interesting.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

No detail was too trivial to escape his notice, and he often spouted the Scottish adage "Many mickles make a muckle"—that is, tiny things add up.

A proverb and a byword among all people.

Oddly, recipes came with warnings that to eat reheated cabbage was fatal. "Twice cooked cabbage is death," an ancient adage popular in the Renaissance, referred both to that belief and to the tedium of listening to a comment repeated over and over.

As pessoas valem o que vale a afeição da gente, e é daí que mestre Povo tirou aquele adágio que quem o feio ama bonito lhe parece.

APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

Satan in his dotage often says publicly or writes on the web page in an era of internet age about the adage and thoughts on the importance of God & Good Character in life only to correct his wrong image to get merely praise and largely project oneself as saint or sage.

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

I never challenged control of the band. Basically, all I did was start asking questions. There's an old adage in Hollywood amongst managers: 'Pay your acts enough money that they don't ask questions.' And I started asking questions.

Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly.

Kate said, "Well, in my country they say that you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

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.

I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing.

It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life.

And all of this from what source? A wayside farm in the Polesine. It illustrates the adage that the deeper the dung, the richer the rose. Who remembers the dung when the rose has blossomed?

All paths lead somewhere, is an old kender adage. Combine this with, Every path is the right path except when it's the left fork, and that pretty much sums up kender philosophy.

Of him they said the proverb had been invented: All good swimmers are drowned.

old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is. Can't learn an old dog new tricks, as the saying is.

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.

There is an adage in business that says that you should only compete when you have a competitive advantage. When it comes to cybersecurity, Maryland has a whole host of competitive advantages.