Adages Quotes - Page 6

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

  Elton John

  Wings, Bird, Cages

  Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

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• With few words, one can speak the truth.

  Bryan Adams

  Few Words, Speak, Speak The Truth

  Song: Native Son

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• Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk.

  Curtis Jackson

  Wise, Men, Laughing

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• When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

  Lou Reed

  Humble, Fire

  Song: Magic and Loss, Album: Magic and Loss, 1992

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• When heart is open, you will change just like a flower slowly opening.

  Van Morrison

  Flower, Heart, Opening

  Song: When Heart Is Open, Album: Common One

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• We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Amoeba, Knows

  Song: Thing Called Love, Album: Nick Of Time

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• I believe in that old adage that 'as goes California, so goes the country.

  Kamala Harris

  Country, Believe, California

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• You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

  Ric Keller

  Horse, Thinking, Water

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• There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Patriotic, Training

  Speech at Chicago, 3 April 1903, in 'New York Times' 4 April 1903

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• One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Office, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Always remember the famous adage about the movie business: You can't make a living, you can only get rich.

  Lynda Obst

  Hollywood, Remember, Rich

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• Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Easter, Investment Success, Chocolate Eggs

  "Moral essays on proverbs". Book by Samuel Palmer, 1710.

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• The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

  John C. Danforth

  Blood, Two, Emotion

  "Faith and Politics: How the 'Moral Values' Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together". Book by John C. Danforth (p. 215), 2006.

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• I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

  Scott Ritter

  True Friend, People, Drunk

  Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006.

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• Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .

  Samuel R. Delany

  Country, Fighting, People

  Samuel R. Delany (1982). “The Jewels of Aptor”, Bantam Books

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• Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Horse, Beggar

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't really believe the words. But if your whole upbringing, and everything you have ever been told by parents, teachers and priests, has led you to believe, really believe, utterly and completely, that sinners burn in hell (or some other obnoxious article of doctrine such as that a woman is the property of her husband), it is entirely plausible that words could have a more long-lasting and damaging effect than deeds.

  Richard Dawkins

  Teacher, Hurt, Husband

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• The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.

  Bootsy Collins

  Rocks, Knowing, Water

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• Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.

  Neil Diamond

  Lying, Doubt, Suffering

  Song: Like You Do, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996

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• 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 it.

  Gordon Bethune

  Airline, Pizza

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• If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
  Then mister you’re a better man than I

  Steven Tyler

  Wise, Men, Color

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• He who forgets will be destined to remember.

  Eddie Vedder

  Remember, Forget, Destined

  FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Mar 25, 2015

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• Never met a wise man, if so its a woman.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mets, Ifs

  "Song: "Territorial Pissings" ("Nevermind")". 1991.

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• 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 the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

  Thomas Huxley

  People, Cost, Worn

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• 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 the manner I have just described, the way the Jew creates something out of nothing (slow strangling). The Jew, better than anyone else in the world knows how to dispossess the poor and the members of the middle classes. To fit this case, the old P.T. Barnum adage needs only a little changing. A gentile enters business every minute, with two Jews waiting to take him out of it.

  Samuel Roth

  Christian, Running, Class

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