Adages Quotes - Page 5

• "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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• Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

  Paul McCartney

  Sometimes, Minutes

  Song: Silly Love Songs Reprise

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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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• Love will abide, take things in stride.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Stride

  Song: Long Long Time

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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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• A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

  Stevie Nicks

  Neglect, Treated, Wounds

  Song: Talk To Me, Album: Rock a Little

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• Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

  Billy Preston

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• Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

  Willie Nelson

  Forever, Stones, Lasts

  Song: Old Fords And A Natural Stone

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• Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

  Al Stewart

  Ifs

  Song: If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It

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• One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

  Steve Winwood

  Men, Fire, Light

  Song: Split Decision, Album: Back in the High Life

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• Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again.

  Gene Pitney

  Heart, Break, Only Love

  Song: Only Love Can Break A Heart

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• Ordinary people have extraordinary love.

  Clay Walker

  People, Ordinary, Ordinary People

  Song: Ordinary People

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• Our own freewill, to choose the paths we take, no greater deed could ever be done than for another's sake.

  Dolly Parton

  Done, Deeds, Sake

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• Paranoia, the destroyer.

  Ray Davies

  Paranoia, Destroyers

  Song: All Day and All of the Night

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• Shame is the shadow of love.

  PJ Harvey

  Shadow, Shadow Of Love, Shame

  Song: Shame, Album: Uh Huh Her, 2004

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• Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.

  Tom Petty

  Rocks, Doors, Golden

  Song: Walls

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• Something's lost, but something's gained, in living everyday.

  Joni Mitchell

  Everyday, Lost, Live Everyday

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• Sometimes bad is bad.

  Huey Lewis

  Sometimes

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2012

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• Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

  Robert Palmer

  Sunshine, Men, Names

  Song: Every Kinda People

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• Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

  Ben Harper

  Battle, Stories, Moral

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• Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt?

  Ashlee Simpson

  Hurt, Good Times, Knows

  Song: Get Nasty

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• Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

  Billy Joel

  Silence, Code, Following

  Song: Code Of Silence, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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