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Definition of Adage

Adage

An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.

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Adage Quotations

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life.
Chelsea Clinton

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
Chelsea Clinton

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Terri Windling

The only stage direction Jackie ever gave him, George said was: 'If you want to stay in the picture, stay close to me.' The rest of the cast remembered a television director's adage.
Audrey Meadows

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds

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Adage Translations

adage in German is Sprichwort
adage in Italian is proverbio
adage in Spanish is proverbio, adagio

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