Adages Quotes

• Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Mind
  • Thrones
  • Stools

• Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Sometimes
  • Minutes
  • Adages

• If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Enemy
  • Criticize
  • Adages

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

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Deeds

• The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

  

  John C. Danforth
  • Emotion
  • Discussion
  • Polite

• There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

  

  Connie Francis
  • Fool
  • Exception
  • Adages

• 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
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Knows

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

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Way
  • Born
  • Adages

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

  

  James Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

  

  Scott Ritter
  • People
  • Care
  • Drunk

• It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Alive
  • Naked
  • Uncertainty

• While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Chance
  • Fake
  • Romance

• 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
  • Teaching
  • Vote
  • Politician

• 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
  • Records
  • Judging
  • Industry

• One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Men
  • Light
  • Fire

• 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
  • America
  • Community
  • Progress

• A woman with a mind, a body with a soul. A heart full of love, that won't let go.

  

  Mindy McCready
  • Mind
  • Letting
  • Adages

• 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
  • People
  • Example
  • Adages

• The destructive power of a lie is stronger than the truth.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Lying
  • Stronger
  • Adages

• The adage 'a family that prays together, stays together' is so true.

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Together
  • Praying
  • Adages

• Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Done
  • Path
  • Adages