Adages Quotes - Page 10

• Cheap is small and not too steep, best of all cheap is cheap.

  Ray Davies

  Steep

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• Don't lie, then you can look the whole world in the eye.

  Michael Peterson

  Lying, Eye, Looks

  Song: Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie

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• Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Running, Dream, Ghost

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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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• Think with your heart, speak with your soul.

  Debbie Gibson

  Heart, Thinking, Soul

  Song: Think With Your Heart, Album: Think With Your Heart, 1995

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• Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

  James Taylor

  Heart, Sleep, Body

  Song: Shed A Little Light, Album: New Moon Shine, 1991

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• Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Unseen, Clean, Wounds

  Song: Long Long Time

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  Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

  Stevie Nicks

  Wise, Timeless, Prisoner

  Song: Beauty And The Beast, Album: The Soundstage Sessions

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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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• 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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• Truth is never far behind.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Truth Is, Behinds

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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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• 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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• Wisdom is not the domain of the Wiz.

  Frank Zappa

  Wiz, Domain

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• Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

  Black Francis

  Wise, Perfect, Tongue

  Song: Speedy Marie, Album: Teenager of the Year, 1994

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• With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

  Dean Martin

  Men, Blessing, Wife

  Song: Memories Are Made Of This

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• You is what you am, a cow don't make ham.

  Frank Zappa

  Ham, Cows

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• You'll never be greater than yourself.

  Bob Dylan

  Greater

  Song: High Water For Charlie Patton, Album: Love And Theft

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• It's the old adage, 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained, ... While this is unique, we consider ourselves unique.

  Gavin Newsom

  Unique, Uniqueness

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• Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Nice, Mean, Thoughtful

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• There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Hands, Joy

  Natalie Goldberg (1998). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, Shambhala Publications

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• You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

  Bill Gross

  Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies, Rose

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• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Facts, Fiction

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• This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Christian, Doors, Locks

  John Jeremiah Sullivan (2011). “Pulphead: Essays”, p.30, Macmillan

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• It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Secret, Victory, Events

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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