"Adage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mind, it is a fixture! I have said already and I say it again, that the church was quite good enough for such people as live here, in its original condition, and that you have really spent a great deal of cash on a very needless work! I mustn't be rude, no, no, no!—but you know the old adage: 'Fools and their money!' Ha-ha-ha! But we shan't quarrel. Oh, dear no! It has cost ME nothing, I am glad to say! Ha-ha! Nor anybody else! Now, if Miss Vancourt of Abbot's Manor had been here when you began this restoration ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... "There's an old adage about the slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, Monsieur Barouche. He's young, and he's got a better ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... who live in them, are very much alike, whether they are nunneries of private families, Catholics or Protestants. Honest people have no need of a slide in the door, and where there is so much precaution, may we not suppose that something behind the curtain imperatively calls for it? It is an old adage, but true notwithstanding, that "where there is concealment, there must ...
— Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal • Sarah J Richardson
... ought, therefore, to persuade their daughters not to marry until they are of age—twenty-one; they should point out to them the risk and danger likely to ensue if their advice be not followed; they should impress upon their minds the old adage: ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis
... told his wife that she and the servant were likely to find something to engage their attention above stairs, he spoke more in jest than earnest, but the remark served to prove the adage that many a truth is spoken at ...
— The Great Cattle Trail • Edward S. Ellis
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