3: 10 ), was later adapted by Vladimir Lenin as an adage of the Soviet Union, He who does not work, neither shall he eat.

In an interview with reporters, Dillinger said that he was firm in his discipline and believed in the adage " spare the rod and spoil the child ".

Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, has shown that in 1952 the adage was called " Murphy's law " in a book by Anne Roe, quoting an unnamed physicist:

( The adage " If you can ’ t sing it, you can ’ t play it " was common in the early New Orleans jazz scene.

The second adage, variously rendered as " ninety percent of everything is crud " or " ninety percent of everything is crap ", was originally known as " Sturgeon's Revelation ", formulated as such in his book review column for Venture.

Ball was also a believer in the Hollywood adage at the time that there should be only one pretty woman on the set and Ball, being the star of the show, was it.

The adage " Capital ships cannot withstand land-based air power " was well known.

This adage was first stated ( and illustrated ) in the 1997 fifth season Deep Space Nine episode " By Inferno's Light ", in which a captive Breen grabbed a disruptor pistol from the holster of a Jem ' Hadar guard, whose back was turned to him in a Dominion asteroid prison, and used it to disintegrate two Jem ' Hadar guards.

The Grand adage ( a. k. a. the Love Duet ) from the second scene of Swan Lake was fashioned from an aria from that opera, as was the Valse des fiancées from the third scene.

This phenomenon of human nature is described in an adage that dates back to at least the 17th century, " might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb ": until 1820, the English law prescribed hanging for stealing anything worth more than one shilling, whether that was a low-value lamb or a whole flock of sheep.

Indeed, it was this approach that elicited the wry adage that " a good decision is getting on a plane at an airport where Kate Adie is getting off ".

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

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.

His adage was: " If you got a tall fighter, make him taller.

The adage was adapted from a statement found in Book 3 of Latin author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's tract De Re Militari ( 4th-or 5th-century ), although the idea it conveys is also present in earlier works, such as Plato's Nomoi ( Laws ).

Akilu also said that he had wanted to visit Giwa at home to " prove a Hausa adage that if you visit someone in his house, you show him you are really a friend .” Ekpu claimed that he remembered Gwarzo saying that the killing was " quite embarrassing " and also that Tony Momoh also described it as " a clear case of assassination ", later on he was also quoted as saying " a special probe would serve no useful purpose ".

" You must play basketball, think basketball and dream basketball ," was his adage.

Leigh Richmond Roose was an early example of the familiar adage that " goalkeepers are different ", a point he made himself in an article on goalkeeping contributed to the four-volume 1906 work Association Football and the Men Who Made It.

" Elon attributes Jewish anti-Semitism as a cause in the overall growth of anti-Semitism when he says ,"( Weininger's ) book inspired the typical Viennese adage that anti-Semitism did not really get serious until it was taken up by Jews.

The facetious adage was popularized by the sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, who heard it from a member of the audience at one of his lectures.

The Middletown study is often quoted as an example of the adage, " nothing really changes ".

Carson has quoted this adage in his lectures for several decades, before it gained popularity as a result of being quoted out of context by Jesse Jackson: " Text, without context, is pretext.

" It is derived from quotations by Theodore Sturgeon, an American science fiction author: while Sturgeon coined another adage that he termed " Sturgeon's law ", it is his " revelation " that is usually referred to by that term.

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

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

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

Godwin's law ( also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies ) is an argument made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage.

The laws of infernal dynamics are an adage about the cursedness of the universe.

Newton's third law of motion is left unparodied, though a separate adage states that " for every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

In 1995, he popularized the adage now known as Wirth's law: " Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

His third remonstration also went unheeded, and Nichiren — following a Chinese adage that if a wise man remonstrates three times but is ignored, he should leave the country — decided to go into voluntary exile at Mt.

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

So when sailing directly into the wind the best strategy is given by the racing adage " tack on a header.

Later, in 1533, he wrote to James V of Scotland pointing out this essay on duty under the adage Spartam nactus es, ( You who were born to Sparta shall serve her ), on the subject of the Flodden campaign and the death of James and his son, Alexander.

Sturgeon's revelation, commonly referred to as Sturgeon's law, is an adage commonly cited as " ninety percent of everything is crap.

An old adage says an apricot tree will not grow far from the mother tree ; the implication is that apricots are particular about the soil conditions in which they are grown.

The adage " keep left " can be used to remain on the correct side of the road.

The Germans quickly developed plans to launch a pre-emptive operation, following the adage that the best defence is a good offense, intent on capturing the northern section of the Zouave Valley along the northernmost portion of the Canadian front.

It became a common adage in the 19th century that one could travel virtually " nowhere " in the United States without crossing over this location, once called Graysville near the city of Guthrie, Kentucky.

More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.

Proves the adage that it's better to give than receive.

" There ain't no such thing as a free lunch " ( alternatively, " There's no such thing as a free lunch " or other variants ) is a popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing.