Sentence examples for as the old dictum goes from inspiring English sources

As the old dictum goes, one man's clogged pipe is another's clogged wallet.

They might also lift their gloom a little if they recalled the old dictum that crisis brings opportunity as well as risks.

"They offered me things but I never wanted to accept them: because of the old dictum that first they give and then they ask... whenever I went to one of those clubs they gave me gold Rolexes, cars".

But in the case of Iran, neither America nor Britain seems to be observing the old dictum.

STUDENTS of politics (and more than a few politicians) know only too well the old dictum about lies that are repeated often enough becoming truth.

When judging the various policies President Obama has put forth in recent weeks to move toward zero nuclear weapons, we should bear in mind the old dictum of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. — to really understand the law, "look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict".

Until the mid-19th century, the women are subject to the old dictum about their names appearing in the newspapers only at birth, marriage and death.