Sentence examples for adage from inspiring English sources

The sorry tale of Chris Huhne, Vicky Pryce, the speeding points and the jail sentences was a perfect illustration of the old adage: "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we leave our wives for a bisexual press strategist".

Then an old adage came ringing back into my head, a nugget of advice intended for leading roles but surely just as applicable to cameos: "When you are struggling to unlock a part, at all times return to the text.

Still, as the old news adage goes 'never wrong for long'.

In proving the old adage about semi-finals rarely being entertaining contests, Ayr United and Kilmarnock served up a 120-minute encounter that in spells could have made the eyes bleed.

The old adage that you can't manage what you don't measure is particularly pertinent when it comes to household energy use, which soared by 13.4% in 2010.

Because that old anarchist adage urging people not to vote because only the government (always the same government) gets in currently rings true in post-agreement Northern Ireland.

As the boxing adage puts it, "a good big 'un will always beat a good little 'un .There is a commonsense logic that bigger is better.

("You can't choose your sons," goes a Japanese adage, "but you can choose your sons-in-law").

According to a well-worn German political adage, "everything is linked with everything .Germany needs to loosen up, and in some ways it is already doing so.

There is much to say in the interim: this new page brings together all our articles, blog posts and multimedia items examining the road to the White HouseBig Blue Buffett No one ever got fired for buying IBM, goes an adage.

In sum, the president, if re-elected, should heed the adage that power tends to corrupt.