Adage
An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
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Adage Quotations
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 adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Terri Windling
The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.
Audrey Meadows
I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds
Adage Translations
adage in German is Sprichwort
adage in Italian is proverbio
adage in Spanish is proverbio, adagio
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