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  • You'll never be greater than yourself. -- Bob Dylan
  • ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk. -- Curtis Jackson
  • We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba. -- Bonnie Raitt
  • It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive. -- Peter Gabriel
  • You is what you am, a cow don't make ham. -- Frank Zappa
  • Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete. -- Kool Moe Dee
  • An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. -- Colin Meloy
  • Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. -- Bob Dylan
  • An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three. -- Fred Brooks
  • I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage. -- Jon Voight
  • 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
  • Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST. -- Frank Zappa
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals. -- Samantha Bond
  • Define your mantras, your adages, and bear down repetitively -- over and over and over! -- David R. Wommack
  • You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses. -- Bill Gross
  • Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre. -- James Thurber
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