Sentence examples for old dictum from inspiring English sources

That old dictum, write what you know?

"Expect cold weather if hogs are fatter than usual," runs another hoary old dictum.

But these days that old dictum is being truncated to just "greedy" by some Goldman critics.

Or to rephrase Clausewitz's old dictum, was warfare for them just profit by other means?

Rose Tremain 1 Forget the boring old dictum "write about what you know".

Old dictum, new iteration: as with a magical effect, when snow clouds materialize nothing should be left to chance.

Does Google Earth let writers break the age-old dictum to "write what they know," by providing access to unknown lands?

STEAMING engines and loose brakes are a worry for any driver; almost equally worrisome is finding a reliable mechanic who won't take a sharp intake of breath and utter the age-old dictum: "This will cost you".

While she devotes about three hundred pages to telling a woman how to revamp her packaging, she has little to say about what sort of husband might be acquired by these means, beyond the age-old dictum "Don't be so picky".

The free availability of information is than a first step towards a form of genetic engineering of biological parts and systems that is truly optional within an alternative wherein collaboration is no longer merely an additional feature of the much older dictum that 'nature is the program; we replicated it; we own it; we are it' (Haraway 1997: 8).

Both Paul and Cruz spend their careers violating the old party dictum about never speaking ill of a Republican.