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The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true. -- Niecy Nash
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.' -- Kamala Harris
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics. -- Mike Quigley
The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist. -- Clive Davis
The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain. -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. -- Peter Diamandis
As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize. -- Rush Limbaugh
You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. -- Charlie Trotter
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
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
There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent. -- Natalie Coughlin
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.' -- Julia Glass
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. -- Glenn Hoddle
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. -- Harold W. Dodds
I believe that the day one stops being spiritual, one ends up being religious. I live by the adage that the only certainty in life is death. We should, therefore, learn to live for the day and be content. -- Ashwin Sanghi
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
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. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.' -- Chelsea Clinton
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. -- Mia Love
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
There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. -- Wilbur Smith
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
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. -- Carrie Preston
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. -- Chelsea Clinton
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. -- Ambrose Bierce
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
There is an old adage: love thy neighbor, but don't get caught. -- Jerry Lawler
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true. -- Yanni
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. -- Colin Meloy
I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country. -- Kamala Harris
An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three. -- Fred Brooks
Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death. -- William Shakespeare
It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique. -- Gavin Newsom
Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage. -- Jon Voight
Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States. -- Norman Thomas
Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich. -- Lynda Obst
If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly. -- Vincent de Paul
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. -- Terri Windling
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
There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words. -- Jeremy Jordan
The adage that you are either gay or straight or you are lying. Well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist -- Clive Davis
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first. -- Kerry Stokes
There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed. -- Mark Zandi
Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. -- Charles Dickens
I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
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
The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore. -- I.E. Castellano
Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly. -- Donald Shoup
"Our prosperity, our friends, our bondage and even our destruction are all in the end rooted in our tongue," says a famous adage. -- Krishnananda Saraswati
There's an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- Gene Simmons
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
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
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, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance. -- Jane Swisshelm
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.
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
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
The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it. -- Val Bianco
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds. -- Wallace Pratt
As the adage goes, 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me'... It's time for patriots everywhere to rally together again and take back America. -- Chuck Norris
The old adage which says that it is "?whom you know that counts' is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference. -- Judith McNaught
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
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
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense. -- Tim Ferriss
It is very difficult to apply the old Indian adage 'Do not judge another until you have walked a mile in his moccasins,' unless you get out of your own moccasins first. -- Thomas Crum
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. -- Niecy Nash
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
It's not just the adage "?write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know. -- Sarah Kay
Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: â??Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldnâ??t want to trade places. -- Darren Hardy
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

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