Adages Quotes · Page 4

Sometimes bad is bad.

— Huey Lewis

A pretty face, don't make a pretty heart.

— Robert Palmer

Arm chair warriors often fail.

— Don Henley

Truth is never far behind.

— Madonna Ciccone

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

— Bob Marley

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

— Gordon Lightfoot

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

— Tupac Shakur

Even the losers get lucky sometimes!

— Tom Petty

Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.

— Bob Dylan

“Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes you've got to fight when your a man.

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Patti Smith

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

— Frederick Buechner

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

— Sting

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

— Amy Grant

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Norman Thomas

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

— Todd Rundgren

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

— e. e. cummings

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

— Gordon Lightfoot

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

— Bob Seger

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to…

— Elton John

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

“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

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

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…

— Sarah Kay

“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

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

— Mas Oyama

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Henry Rollins

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

— Anonymous

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

— Connie Francis

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

— Robert Palmer

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

— Steven Curtis Chapman

Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

— Michael Jackson

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

— James Taylor

Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.

— Kool Moe Dee