Adages Quotes

Life can only be understood backwards.

— Mackenzie Astin

Expand the mind, seek and you shall find.

— Killah Priest

Anger destroys your soul.

— Marvin Gaye

Make a destination of the greater truth.

— Bob Seger

With few words, one can speak the truth.

— Bryan Adams

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

— Bob Marley

The naked truth is still taboo.

— Bob Dylan

The heart says what only the heart knows.

— Lou Reed

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't push him in.

— Rock Cowles

In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

— David Bowie

Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.

— Bob Seger

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

— Robert Palmer

If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Pretty girls come a dime a dozen, try to find one who's gonna give you true loving.

— Smokey Robinson

“Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Dan Fogelberg

The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

— e. e. cummings

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

— Bob Seger

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bisexuality does exist.

— Clive Davis

I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

— Bob Dylan

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind…

— Todd Rundgren

Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.

— Norman Thomas

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

— Charles Dickens

Studying the martial Way is like climbing a cliff: keep going forward without rest. Resting is not permissible because it causes recessions…

— Mas Oyama

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world…

— Hannah Arendt

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of…

— Desiderius Erasmus

In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If…

— Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life…

— Arthur Hailey

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off…

— Martha Beck

America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have…

— Samuel Roth

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real…

— Thomas Huxley

My feeling is, if a dog is that hard up to break free, let it go. It's like a boyfriend who wants…

— Chelsea Handler