Adages Quotes

• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Birthday, Gratitude, Horse

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Secret, Development, Belief

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books

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• You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

  Stan Laurel

  Horse, Teach A Man To Fish, Water

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• 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

  Grandmother, Challenges, Passed Away

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• An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three."

  Fred Brooks

  Sea, Two, Three

  "The Mythical Man-Month". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

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• ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Teeth, Weak

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.12, University of Georgia Press

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• Don't count your chickens before they egg.

  Ross O'Donovan

  Eggs, Fables, Chickens

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• Many hands make light work.

  John Heywood

  Change, Teamwork, Hands

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.221

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• A fool and his money are soon married.

  Carolyn Wells

  Money, Italian, Fool

  Carolyn Wells (1912). “The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady”

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• Make hay while the sun shines.

  John Heywood

  Work, Opportunity, Shining

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

  Thomas Tusser

  Money, Italian, Taxation

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• Two heads are better than one.

  Unknown

  Teamwork, Educational, Kissing

  John Heywood, Rudolph E. Habenicht (1963). “A Dialogue of Proverbs: Edited, with Introd., Commentary, and Indexes. by Rudolph E. Habenicht”

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• A fool and his money are soon partying.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Money, Party

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• The lack of money is the root of all evil.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Bible, Sarcastic

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.337, Univ of California Press

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• Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

  Aesop

  Wisdom, Literature, Fables

  Aesop, General Press (2016). “Aesop's Fables: A collection of 284 moral stories”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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

  Grandmother, Differences, Making A Difference

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• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Funny, Life

  In Memoriam canto 27 (1850) See Congreve 7

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• May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

  Bob Dylan

  Strong, Forever, May

  Song: Forever Young, Album: Planet Waves, 1974

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• 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

  Football, Team, Winning

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• 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

  Team, Complacent, Coaches

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• 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

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• 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

  People, Film, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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