Sentence examples for as the old adage has from inspiring English sources

Moreover, boards still look too rarely beyond their own kind for talent, remaining (as the old adage has it) male, pale and stale.

Adversity is rarely the mother of invention, as the old adage has it.

The old adage has it that diplomacy is "war by other means".

Does the old adage have merit after all?

This week that old adage has been as true as ever.

Rather, he would have drawn a line halfway down the middle or, as the old adage would have it, "You keep half and we'll keep half" (can you picture Menachem Begin in swim trunks -- I can't?).

And once it has happened, new news overtakes the old: the dogs bark, as the old Middle Eastern adage has it, but the caravan moves on.

So as the old adage goes, "I have good genes," can now mean that we get to fully live out our true potential partially through choice, rather than chance.

For millennia, diversity of opinion has been a Jewish hallmark, as the old adage goes, "when you have two Jews you've three opinions".

The old adage of having a milky drink before bedtime probably had a kernel of truth.

As the old adage goes, let Kanye be Kanye.