(n.) An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the great cautionary adages of our culture is: "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it."
(2) What does the slung-about, bounced-around adage that "Politics is show-business for ugly people" actually mean?
(3) Certainly, the galvanising call for submissions brings to mind that inclusive Varsovian adage: “The entire nation builds its capital.” For Warsaw’s reconstruction, though, it was the work of a single artist that provided the crucial blueprint.
(4) It reminds me of the old adage that we teach people how to treat us.
(5) Depending on your tastes, that verdict might either bring to mind Marx’s adage about history being repeated first as tragedy then farce, or the immortal words of Jay Gatsby: “Can’t repeat the past?
(6) The old adage, "You are what you eat," is not always reliable, as demonstrated in this mixed-longitudinal study of men that began in 1969.
(7) Working with researchers at the University of Surrey and being exposed to the wealth of evidence out there, it is clear to me that the old adage "rest is best" no longer applies.
(8) It has some commentators repeating an old adage about newspapers, repeated by Bill Clinton when he was president: "Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."
(9) You can only beat what’s put in front of you, as the old adage goes … but the Potters’ recent run of fixtures could scarcely have been kinder: Bournemouth are the only side inside the top 10 they have played in over two months and they beat Mark Hughes’s men.
(10) At the time I thought it was a clever inversion of an old adage, referring to Labour's 18 years in opposition.
(11) As in Aesop's adage, the ego ideal is at the source of the best and the worst of things.
(12) The three dimensional display capabilities of the Adage AGT-30 are used to present the reconstructed structures.
(13) As the African adage says, “a man must be like a flowering pole, he must grow wherever he is planted”.
(14) Diane Abbott is Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington Simon Danczuk Simon Danczuk: 'Voters want a party they can trust on immigration' There's an old adage in politics that if you don't think you can win an argument, be sure to change the subject.
(15) Two-and-a-half years on, and regulators have lived up to the adage that those who don't learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
(16) That’s why the government guidelines don’t say, ‘Don’t drink’; they say, ‘OK drink, but only modestly.’ It’s like a little of what doesn’t kill you cures you.” This adage also applies in an unexpected place – to broccoli, the luvvie of the high-street “superfood” detox salad.
(17) Don’t sterilise everything that comes into contact with your child’s mouth, within reason.” In fact, the one piece of advice Arrieta offers mothers is to forget the adage “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” “One thing I don’t do any more – and wish others would stop – is carrying a hand sanitiser gel.
(18) Caraiva, Bahia Steven Chew, contributing editor Conde Nast Traveller There's an adage with remote Brazilian beaches: first go the hippies, then the yachties, then the French ... Caraiva is still at the happy-hippy stage of discovery and even then only for a brief period in the summer.
(19) The adage "do no harm" should be kept in mind in the counseling, diagnosis, and treatment of HIV-infected individuals.
(20) Baseball fans are familiar with the old adage “pitching wins championships”.