Adage Quotes - Page 4

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.

It is always healthy to be honest.

Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.

We love our mother because she cares and also because she cooks.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.

Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.

We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

We exist only to exist.

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.

To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.

The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own.

Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love, only because they do not want to have a reason or another reason to be jealous of the person who would eventually be their lover if they let go of them.

Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Prudence is precaution, prudence is protection.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Dresses don't look beautiful on hangers.

No tricks, no tools, but talent makes a task truly top class.

Travel teaches as much as a teacher.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

A good swordsman is more important than a good sword.

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.

This is the only truth in the world that was necessary yesterday, is necessary today, and will continue to be necessary tomorrow: be conscious of now.