Say he is a horse thief '', runs an old adage.

The old shop adage still holds: `` A good mechanic is usually a bad boss ''.

An old adage describes beating as sailing for twice the distance at half the speed and three times the discomfort.

The conservative position is encapsulated in perhaps the most famous adage of public finance, " An old tax is a good tax ".

The display of this section begins with the old Chinese adage, ' food is the first necessity of the people '.

Through overuse, an adage may become a cliché or truism, or be described as an " old saw.

As Nathan said, " This is the ultimate proof of the old adage that ' baseball is a game of inches.

On 4 November 1909, he decided to take up a passenger, a piglet, which he named Icarus the Second, thereby debunking the old adage that pigs can't fly.

This is commonly thought to be unethical and there is an old adage that " eavesdroppers seldom hear anything good of themselves ... eavesdroppers always try to listen to matters that concern them.

Screenshot from the 1987-94 titles showing the game board without lettersA solo player competed against a pair of contestants, thus setting out to prove or disprove the old adage that two heads really were better than one.

An often repeated quote from this book is, " Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.

" When asked if his views on current events are too caustic, Russell replies, " I follow the old newsman's adage.

Tipper's home is a ballpark barn-a 40 ' x 20 ' red barn which is part of the outfield fence-doubles carom off the side of the barn, and home runs land on the roof, leading to a new twist on the old baseball adage " couldn't hit the broadside of the barn " which now represents weak hitters instead of wild pitchers.

If one is unsure of whether one has encountered poison oak or not, an old adage states, " Leaves of three, leave them be.

" Cannibal Corpse ’ s bassist Alex Webster exudes a quiet, intellectual and particularly amiable persona which seems so at odds with the music that he is a driving force behind that one is immediately reminded of the old adage about not judging books by their covers.

The old adage " A picture is worth a thousand words " holds true, in that a single image can save a presenter from speaking a paragraph of descriptive details.

And he added that the old adage " time is money " understates the matter, as time can often produce money, but money cannot produce more time.

Also, in accordance with the old adage, " an enemy of my enemy is my friend ," the aromatics may alert natural enemies of the plant invaders to the presence thereof.

Its fanciful title was drawn from an old adage: " Who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.

So with these concepts in mind, when your desired destination is exactly to windward the most efficient strategy is given by the old racing adage to " Tack on a header.

According to the 1874 edition of Blount's Tenures of Land, King John's messengers " found some of the inhabitants engaged in endeavouring to drown an eel in a pool of water ; some were employed in dragging carts upon a large barn, to shade the wood from the sun ; others were tumbling their cheeses down a hill, that they might find their way to Nottingham for sale ; and some were employed in hedging in a cuckoo which had perched upon an old bush which stood where the present one now stands ; in short, they were all employed in some foolish way or other which convinced the king's servants that it was a village of fools, whence arose the old adage, " The wise men ," or " The fools of Gotham.

The old adage " an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure " points to the fact that ecological restoration is not always successful ( or only over long spans of time ) and, when feasible, is often difficult and expensive.

Another example is the old adage, " Just because a woman can make a baby in 9 months, it does not follow that 9 women can make a baby in one month.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

`` Man engages only a small part of himself in an action '' says old Alvear the art-historian ; ;

He jammed it this spring and has had to rest it, but he says the old injury hasn't bothered him.

`` most orthodontic work is done on children between the ages of 10 and 14, though there have been patients as young as two and as old as 55 '', says Dr. Brodie.

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

Here, the lord Krishna says that just as a man discards his old clothes and wears new ones ; similarly the soul discards the old body and takes on a new one.

Snorri says at first it is Valhalla and then adds: " The Swedes now believed that he had gone to the old Asagarth and would live there forever " ( Section 9 ).

Gregory, however, also says that he thinks that Ingoberg was seventy years old in 589 ; and this would make her about forty when she married Charibert.

There is an old Russian legend that says the Samoyeds, an ancient Siberian tribe, traveled to an underground cavern city to live inside the earth.

From Mount Emei in Sichuan, a Daoist hermit, a nun known as a " numinous old woman " and " holy physician "— who Temple says was associated with the ' school of the ancient immortals ' and thus most likely specialized in ' internal alchemy '— introduced the technique of inoculation to the capital.

Christian tradition says that John the Evangelist was one of Christ's original twelve apostles ; the only one to live into old age ; and not killed for his faith.

The film's producer says the animal — who was old and not expected to live much longer — was killed off-camera by a certified veterinarian, in accordance with Swedish law.

" and when Matthias, the old man who works with the PFJ dismisses crucifixion as " a doddle " and says being stabbed would be worse.

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Soon after he was born, Ferrigno says he believes he suffered a series of ear infections and lost 75 to 80 % of his hearing, though his condition was not diagnosed until he was three years old.

In 1599, three years later, Musashi left his village, apparently at the age of 15 ( according to the Tosakushi, " The Registry of the Sakushu Region ", although the Tanji Hokin Hikki says he was 16 years old in 1599, which agrees time-wise with the age reported in Musashi's first duel ).

The title of I Mother Earth's song " Shortcut to Moncton " on the album Scenery and Fish ( track 7 ) was inspired by a highway sign on the Trans-Canada highway that points to the old Fredericton Road that says, " Shortcut to Moncton ".

" He also says that " the old Cumontian model of formation in, and diffusion from, Anatolia ... is by no means dead — nor should it be.

Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.

It says, " Learn till old, live till old, and there is still one-third not learned ," meaning that no matter how old you are, there is still more learning or studying left to do.

When asked about the exiled Duke Senior, the character of Charles says that he is " already in the forest of Arden, and a many merry men with him ; and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England.

The old man says that they should drive the horses down to the river Busiltjörn.