Adage Quotes

Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.

Many a survivor of a plane crash who is or was against cannibalism and had never eaten human flesh once found themselves in a situation where they had to either eat human flesh, or go the way of all flesh.

Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

Travelling the road will tell you more about the road than the google will tell you about the road.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists outside religious books and the minds of believers, that is. Having said that, given the choice, instead of being grilled until hell freezes over, the average sane human being would, needless to say, rather spend forever idling in an extremely fertile garden, next to a lamb or a chicken or a parrot, which they do not secretly want to eat, and a lion or a tiger or a crocodile, which does not secretly want to eat them.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

Great losses are great lessons.

During your struggle society is not a bunch of flowers, it is a bunch of cactus.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Simplicity saves strength.

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.

Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.

Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.

Don't mention your move before you make a move.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don't think of calories.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Power does not pardon, power punishes.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.

The human population would probably be way less than a thousand, if ejaculation were not usually accompanied by an orgasm.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

To ask a man whether or not he has a girlfriend is to talk about his sex life. If you disagree with that, then how in the name of God do you differentiate between a man’s girlfriend and a girl that is a friend to the man?

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself.

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.

The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.

If where you are is worthwhile then where you are from doesn't matter.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.