adage

• Well, if you're a property developer the adage is always "location, location, location …" and now there's another reason why you should think where your bricks and mortar are located before you look at anything else … —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• This adage is as old as language and literature itself - being first coined by the Greeks. —  PinoyPress
• This adage is attributed to Charles F. Ketteringthe inventor of the electric starter for automobiles. —  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
• As a certain Danish adage would have it, the neutrals of the league must all be shorn over the same comb What is to be shorn over this one comb of neutralisation and democracy is all those who go into the pacific league of neutrals and all who come under its jurisdiction, whether of their own choice or by the necessities of the case. —  An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• While this adage is almost invariably true in the case of ordinary people, it would hardly be just to apply it where monarchs and princes of the blood are concerned. —  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2)

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