We should remind ourselves of the old Wall Street adage: bulls make money, bears make money, (high yield) pigs get slaughtered.
If we must pull one idea from Fame Shark, it's the old adage everyone knows but bears repeating again and again until we get it right: Love yourself, then love others.
An adage I should have borne in mind before accepting an invitation to be the first journalist to be allowed to see the museum's completed galleries, and the first person to photograph the inside of the airy glass box at the top of the museum which will house the part of the Parthenon Marbles held by the Greeks.
This class seems to bear that adage out.
Exhibit VII-A, which portrays the first-level factors which caused the second-level feelings of achievement, bears out the adage that "nothing succeeds like success," since feelings of successful achievement stem from a successful achievement in 63% of the cases.
I suppose this bears out the adage that your teacher remains your teacher, long after class is over.
Most composers' biographies bear out the adage that geniuses are born, not made.
The news that Alistair Cambell is the "director of strategic communications" surely bears out the old adage that the first casualty of war is likely to be the truth.
This most recent attempt -- about the 83rd since the Revolution -- by the government to destroy its own country bears out the old adage that politically, a Frenchman is born with three feet -- two to walk with and one to shoot himself in.
But in the bottom of the ninth, Piazza, wearing a T-shirt under his jersey that read, "Stronger Than Death," hit a pitch off the left-handed reliever Rheal Cormier so hard, that cleared the left-center-field wall so quickly, for the game-winning homer that the adage on his T-shirt might bear consideration.
