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Adage in sentence

71 examples of Adage in a sentence

It's not just the adage "Write what you know."
I know that many of you have heard the traveler's adage, "Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints."
It's called apropos of the Italian adage that I lifted from his forward, "If This Be Treason."
They probably were simply following the wisdom that has come down through the ages, this adage that when you're making decisions, especially decisions of importance, it's best to be in charge, it's best to be in control, it's best to be in the driver's seat.
I said, is there any validity to this whole adage that when you're making decisions, it's best to take the driver's seat, be in charge, be in control?
And then of course, there was the other adage.
And you know, there's another adage in Hollywood, that nobody knows nothing about anything.
But what's more difficult to navigate is the emotional landscape between the generations, and the old adage that with age comes wisdom is not true.
Because the old adage that comes from Burundi is right: that you do for me, without me, you do to me.
It's such a fatalistic adage.
The old adage, "I have to be twice as good as someone else."
There's an old adage that applied for the years between 1950s and 1970s, when every aeronautical company was working on vertical-takeoff aircraft.
And the adage that I'm referring to, that applied at that time, was that nothing comes down faster than a VTOL aircraft upside down.
We found the old adage, you know, "The eyes are the window to the soul," absolutely true.
They also have a 3,000-year-old adage, which I think is the greatest sort of diet suggestion ever invented.
(Breathes in) I know this letter will come to you surprisingly, but let it not be a surprise to you, for nature has a way of arriving unannounced, and, as an adage says, originals are very hard to find, but their echoes sound ouder.
Remember the old adage "innocent until proved guilty".
They prove, in spades, the adage that a good cast cannot save a bad script.
To sum it up, it can be said that the old adage, "Behind every great man is a great woman" a perceptive and illuminating proper edifice.
I recently saw this movie at a friends house and it proves the old adage "Small things come in little packages".
Obviously the writer/director don't necessarily believe in the old adage of "anything worth doing is worth doing well".
There's an adage in the world of drama, which goes something like this -- "a pistol hung on the wall in Act One must be fired by Act Three".
Bringing to light the old adage of us all having our own 'private hell'.
In its first few years in Iraq, the US discovered the wisdom of Talleyrand’s adage that the one thing you cannot do with a bayonet is sit on it.
China’s leaders seem intent on proving the old adage that “possession is nine-tenths of the law.”
(As the old adage has it, banks only like to lend to those who do not need money.)
The adage that "you are what you eat" holds two meanings.
The big lesson from all of this is captured by the familiar adage, “garbage in, garbage out.”
Have no doubt: today’s markets rely heavily on the old adage that “time heals all wounds.”
Churchill’s famous adage that democracy is the worst political system, with the exception of all the others, has been borne out across the continent.
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