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• "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

  Tongue, Prosperity, Awareness

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• Fools rush in, where wise men never go,
  But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

  Johnny Mercer

  Love, Wise, Fall

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• I am a believer in the adage - performance leads to recognition, recognition leads to respect and respect leads to power.

  N. R. Narayana Murthy

  Achievement, Recognition, Believer

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• ...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is watching, and love like you've never been hurt.'...After years of hearing and reading these lines I have decided to tell the truth: the original version is wrong. There is a grave error in the wording of this adage. The correct version should go as follows: Love like you don't need the money, Work like nobody is watching, Dance like you've never been hurt. See? Doesn't that make more sense?

  Gina Barreca

  Hurt, Reading, Years

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• Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Sea, Waiting

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: His Relatives, Friends and Enemies ...”, p.169

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• It is a time-honored adage that love begats love...cast your bread upon the waters and ye shall receive it after many days, increased to a hundredfold.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Love, Water, Bread

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• The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

  Niecy Nash

  People, Example, Left

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

  Vincent de Paul

  Haste, Ifs

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• It hardly needs explaining at length, I think, how much authority or beauty is added to style by the timely use of proverbs. In the first place who does not see what dignity they confer on style by their antiquity alone?... And so to interweave adages deftly and appropriately is to make the language as a whole glitter with sparkles from Antiquity, please us with the colours of the art of rhetoric, gleam with jewel-like words of wisdom, and charm us with titbits of wit and humour.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Art, Thinking, Jewels

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• That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

  Jennifer Egan

  Writing, Opposites, Way

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• 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 on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.

  Kim Mitchell

  Things In Life, Wish, Generations

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• When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Believe, Suffering

  Song: Superstition, Album: Natural Wonder, 1972

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• 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 all in our minds.

  Wallace Pratt

  Oil, Judging, Mind

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• Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

  Don Henley

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Life Changing

  Song: My Thanksgiving

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• As a professional broadcaster, I can tell you that over the course of my career, there is an adage: don't ever apologize.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Careers, Apologizing, Courses

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• There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consumers connected through social media: People support what they help to build. But now that many brands are launching community-driven cause marketing campaigns, the challenge becomes what to do next?

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, People, Support

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• The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

  Thomas Sowell

  Teaching, Men, Rights

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

  Shannon Hale

  People, Dislike

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• Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Waiting

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35

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• You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Disappointment, Expectations, Plant

  Interview with Cathi Hanauer, www.elle.com. March 23, 2009.

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• It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind controlled and onlyslightly more conscious than your average zombie. Far fetched? No, no. I define mind control as the manipulation of someone's mind so that they think, and therefor act, the way you want them to.

  David Icke

  Believe, Thinking, Average

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

  Richard Carlson

  Opportunity, People, Doubt

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• The old adage which says that it is ‘whom you know that counts’ is far off the mark. It is what you know about whom you know that truly makes difference.

  Judith McNaught

  Differences, Mark, Knows

  Judith McNaught (2016). “Something Wonderful”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow, and steal, as the old adage goes, and if you happen to get caught in the act, at least you´ve gone down fighting the good fight.

  Paul Auster

  Fighting, Winning, Hands

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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