Quotes & Sayings About Adages

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

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

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

Ordinary people have extraordinary love. — Clay Walker

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

It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique. — Gavin Newsom

When love is true there is no truer occupation. — Gordon Lightfoot

Your heroes will help you find good in yourself. — Randy Travis

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

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

The naked truth is still taboo. — Bob Dylan

Love will abide, take things in stride. — Linda Ronstadt

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught. — Jerry Lawler

Anger destroys your soul. — Marvin Gaye

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

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

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

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

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

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble. — Lou Reed

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

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

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

Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively
over and over and over! — David R. Wommack

Truth is never far behind. — Madonna Ciccone

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

The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth. — Henry Rollins

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

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon. — Gordon Lightfoot

The heart says what only the heart knows. — Lou Reed

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

Sometimes bad is bad. — Huey Lewis

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

You is what you am, a cow don't make ham. — Frank Zappa

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

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again. — James Brown

Follow the rules or follow the fools. — Tupac Shakur

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

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

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba. — Bonnie Raitt

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

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

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man. — Bruce Springsteen

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

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger. — Billy Joel

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

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

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder. — Warren Zevon

The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts. — Pete Townshend

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

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

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

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

I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies. — Ozzy Osbourne

Age doesn't make a man. — Roger Miller

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

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late. — Bob Dylan

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

Make a destination of the greater truth. — Bob Seger

You'll never be greater than yourself. — Bob Dylan

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

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise. — Steven Curtis Chapman

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

Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz. — Frank Zappa

The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown. — Michael Jackson

Everything is trust, all the rest is dust. — Gordon Lightfoot

Everybody else shares the same cloudy sky. — Joe Walsh

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

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

Paranoia, the destroyer. — Ray Davies

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

It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far. — Madonna Ciccone

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

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

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