I generally shrug off this type of pop business advice, but when we are talking about Carl C. Icahn, the investor whom I have likened to a Wile E. Coyote, it may be a wise adage.
The ruling, in essence, reinforces the wise adage attributed to former New York Sen. Patrick Moynihan that, while everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, we are not each entitled to our own facts.
The same worldly-wise adage applies these days to the entire Arab region, wracked by collapsing states, terrorism, sectarianism, proxy wars and alliances of the strangest bedfellows.
There's a wise old adage that says because we spend a third of our lives in bed, we should invest in a great mattress.
The bureau would have been wiser to remember another adage: A dollar saved is a dollar earned, even if $30 million is a tiny fraction of a $2.3 trillion federal budget.
Re "Starting Young in Treating High Blood Pressure" (Aug. 10): Americans would be wise to follow that old adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
To cite another adage: A word to the wise is sufficient.
In its place is another adage attributed to an equally wise man, George Burns: if you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.
Asked for comment about the coverage of Clinton, her spokesman, Jay Carson, says: "I'll just say that at the Clinton campaign, we do our best to live by the old adage that it's not wise to pick fights with people who buy ink by the barrel". For nearly a year, the New York senator was widely depicted as the inevitable nominee.
But in this pogo stick sport, where balky knees and aching backs have always stood out as unmistakable signs of decline, here are the geriatric Knicks: 14 wins, 4 losses, first place in the East, playing smart, savvy basketball as if they had set out to prove the adage "another day older, another day wiser".
Clever trading: The old adage that it's smart to sell your losers and let your winners ride is usually a wise formula for deferring taxes.
