Adages Quotes

191 quotes by 138 authors

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… — Gordon Bethune
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's… — Chelsea Clinton
The most important adage and the only adage is, the customer comes first, whatever the business, the customer comes first. — Kerry Stokes
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… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I… — Thomas Huxley
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… — Alexander Hamilton
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true. — Yanni
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… — Wallace Pratt
Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem… — Adam Carolla
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… — Paul Thomas Anderson
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… — Thomas Huxley
America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have been acquired in… — Samuel Roth
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… — Chelsea Clinton
For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the… — Jerry I. Porras
Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true -… — Mia Love
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… — Natalie Coughlin
As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so… — Kim Mitchell
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. — Colin Meloy
"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
Itâ€™s not just the adage â€˜write what you know,â€™ itâ€™s about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience youâ€™ve collected up to now to… — Sarah Kay

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