Adages Quotes

Truth is never far behind. ~ Madonna Ciccone

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

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

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work ... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage. ~ Jon Voight

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. ~ Bob Dylan

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer. ~ Stevie Wonder

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."
p. 177: Kettricken to Fitz: ~ Robin Hobb

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky. ~ Joe Walsh

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love. ~ David Bowie

Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery . ~ Samuel R. Delany

This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping ... ~ John Jeremiah Sullivan

Shame is the shadow of love. ~ PJ Harvey

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. ~ Kool Moe Dee

Age doesn't make a man. ~ Roger Miller

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

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

With few words, one can speak the truth. ~ Bryan Adams

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out. ~ Garth Brooks

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

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart. ~ Robert Palmer

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

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool. ~ Connie Francis

Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs. ~ Don McLean

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. ~ Vincent De Paul

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything. ~ Bruce Springsteen

Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them. ~ Albert Payson Terhune

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown. ~ Gordon Lightfoot

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

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories. ~ Bob Seger

The only real person you need to know is you. ~ Alice Cooper

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. ~ Sasha Sokolov

I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' ~ Kamala Harris

When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening. ~ Van Morrison

The juvenile adage Never kiss and tell had a sound moral instinct behind it. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone? ... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour. ~ Desiderius Erasmus

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man. ~ Bruce Springsteen

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

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise. ~ Stevie Nicks

Trust isn't something that's spoken and love's never wrong when it's real. ~ Dan Fogelberg

Expand the mind, seek and you shall find. ~ Killah Priest

You can't change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping. ~ Madeleine Bunting

Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you. ~ Robert Palmer

Don't lie, then you can look the whole world in the eye. ~ Michael Peterson

It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced. ~ Garth Brooks

Art thou afeard
To be the same in thine own act and valour
As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,
And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'
Like the poor cat i' the adage? ~ William Shakespeare

I think I've always believed in Ronald Reagan's adage, "Peace through Strength." Let's grow stronger on a transatlantic basis in our economies. ~ Mike Pence

As one of [Montaigne's] favorite adages had it, there is no escaping our perspective: we can walk only on our own legs, and sit only on our own bum. ~ Sarah Bakewell

Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again. ~ Gene Pitney

Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position. ~ Shelley Moore Capito

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

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

Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap. ~ Ray Davies

Stay wise and the mind is untouchable. ~ Rakim

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

Break the chains in our brains that make us fear. ~ Tupac Shakur

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you. ~ Bob Dylan

Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same. ~ Jim Croce

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. ~ Samantha Bond

Takes more than combat boots to make a man. ~ Sting

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

Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt? ~ Ashlee Simpson

When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules.
You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight. ~ Paul Auster

It is a time-honored adage that love begats love ... cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool. ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter

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

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

Forget the adage buy low and sell high. ~ William O'Neil

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive. ~ Peter Gabriel

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest. ~ James Taylor

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns. ~ Gordon Lightfoot

Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen. ~ Linda Ronstadt

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age. ~ Dan Fogelberg

When you have everything, you have everything to lose. ~ Ben Harper

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

Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul. ~ Robert Palmer

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be. ~ Elvis Presley

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

Never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie. ~ Fiona Apple

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ Thomas Henry Huxley

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

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

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

Just like the old adage
what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself
~ Shannon Hale

If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
Then mister you're a better man than I ~ Steven Tyler

Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured. ~ Big Boi

Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime. ~ Marvin Gaye

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go. ~ Randy Travis

Ordinary people have extraordinary love. ~ Clay Walker

Make hay while the sun shines. ~ John Heywood

Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. ~ Joe Haldeman

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

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all. ~ Paul McCartney

Acknowledge all man as fellow creation, but don't follow him. ~ Patti Smith

The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby. ~ Bob Marley

Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it. ~ Bob Marley

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. ~ Ric Keller

A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect. ~ Stevie Nicks

Paranoia, the destroyer. ~ Ray Davies

Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death. ~ William Shakespeare

Make a destination of the greater truth. ~ Bob Seger