Adage Quotes - page 2

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out. (Jennifer Egan)
There's an old adage about speakers: You won't remember what they said, but you'll never forget how they made you feel. Trump knows that in his bones. He gives his supporters - and they are growing - a terrific feeling of safety and security, along with a laugh and a smile. View quote
Cass Sunstein
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. View quote
Beryl Markham
The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist. View quote
Clive Davis
'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced. View quote
Carrie Preston
The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses. View quote
Glenn Hoddle
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. View quote
Gordon Bethune
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. View quote
Harold W. Dodds
The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside. View quote
Niecy Nash
The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true. View quote
Niecy Nash
There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next? (Simon Mainwaring)
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. View quote
William Earl Brown
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' View quote
Kamala Harris
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger? View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life. View quote
Chelsea Clinton
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. View quote
Barbara Ehrenreich
As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' (Thomas Sowell)
I think that, uh, you know, I'm really happy that the message, or at least some of the message of The Secret is reaching mass consciousness in a way that people realize that they can begin to, uh, positively affect their lives. That's why when I was on the show and said "I've lived this way my whole life", and people who watched our show for years know that I've been talking about how you take responsibility for your life and the choices that you make. Empower your life. And so, when I say that, you know, um, that's how I live my life, the message of The Secret, that's what I mean. I also believe, that, uh, medical healing or healing comes in lots of forms. You know that adage about the guy being lost and God sent him a boat and God sent him - then he gets to heaven and says "Why didn't you help me?" And God's, "I sent you the boat, fool!" View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. View quote
Charles Dickens
Perhaps the answer can be found in an old African adage: "If you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to go far, go together." View quote
Francis Escudero
Whenever I'm to translate from Spanish to English, I always stop to think of the what but, just as importantly, of the how I'm going to translate what is said by the characters or what is in the narration. If I used an adage, an axiom, a proverb, a maxim, etc., there are always equivalents but as said previously, one mustn't translate literally, word for word, because that doesn't work. One has to analyze what is in the original to make the point with an equivalent adage or axiom; if there's none, there must be something close to the original, and I'll go with that. What one looks for is meaning.... View quote
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith