Adages Quotes - Page 10

• Who so ever diggeth the pit, shall fall in it.

  Bob Marley

  Fall, Pits

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• The biggest man you're ever going to see was once a baby.

  Bob Marley

  Baby, Men

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• Takes more than combat boots to make a man.

  Sting

  Men, Boots, Combat

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• My feeling is, if a dog is that hard up to break free, let it go. It's like a boyfriend who wants to break up. We all know the old adage "If you set someone free, and he never comes back, then he was never yours." I understand the main fear with setting dogs loose is they could get hit by a car, but so could an ex boyfriend. That's just a chance you have to take.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Dog, Ex Boyfriend

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.

  Joe Haldeman

  Book, Writing, Adultery

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• Hope strengthens. Fear kills[...] That simple adage is master of every situation, every choice. Each morning we wake up, we get to choose between hope and fear and apply one of those emotions to everything we do. Do we greet things that come our way with joy? Or suspicion?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Morning, Simple, Joy

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.979, Dell

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• Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.

  Darren Hardy

  People, Advice, Want

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

  Bob Seger

  Dream, Fire, Watches

  Song: The Fire Inside, Album: Greatest Hits

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• Anger destroys your soul.

  Marvin Gaye

  Soul, Your Soul

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• Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

  Bob Dylan

  Arrows, Truth Is, Gates

  Song: When He Returns, Album: Slow Train Coming, 1979

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

  Kool Moe Dee

  Men, Vices, Vice Versa

  Song: Funke Wisdom

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

  Robert Palmer

  Heart, Faces, Pretty Face

  Song: Bad Case of Loving You

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• Arm chair warriors often fail.

  Don Henley

  Warrior, Arms, Failing

  Song: The End of the Innocence, Album: The End of the Innocence

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• Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Dream, Soul, Balance

  Song: The Power Of Gold

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• Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Faces, Common, Calm

  Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream

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• I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.

  Clive Davis

  Lying, Gay, Bisexual

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• When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

  Ben Harper

  Loses

  Song: Diamonds on the Inside, Album: Diamonds On The Inside, 2003

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• Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.

  Jim Croce

  Memories, Bridges, People

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

  Steve Winwood

  Romance, Fake, Chance

  Song: While You See A Chance, Album: Arc of a Diver

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• A taste of honey is worse than none at all.

  Smokey Robinson

  Taste, Honey

  "Song: 'I Second That Emotion'". 1967.

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• To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Crowns, Thorns, Crown Of Thorns

  Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

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• An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Men, Hard

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• An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

  Don Henley

  Men, Thinking, Angry Man

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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• All things must pass, all things must pass away.

  George Harrison

  Passing Away, All Things Must Pass, All Things

  Song: All Things Must Pass, Album: All Things Must Pass, 1970

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

  Patti Smith

  Men, Creation, Acknowledge

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.177, Bloomsbury Publishing

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