Crossword clues for adages
adages
- Timeworn words
- Timeworn truisms
- Some bits of advice
- Many Franklin quotes
- Fortune cookie sayings, often
- Folk sayings
- Commonly used saws
- Ben Franklin provided some
- Wise observations
- Traditional truisms
- Traditional sayings
- Time-tested wisdom
- Time-honored expressions
- Some almanac fodder
- Some almanac entries
- Sayings from sages
- Saws that may be dull
- Saws that are often dull
- Sampler phrases
- Old dull saws?
- Many clichés
- Franklin's stock in trade
- Fortune cookie fortunes, often
- Common easy crossword theme answers
- Collection in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
- Bits of folk wisdom
- Ben Franklin specialties
- "What goes up must come down" and the like
- "What goes up must come down" and others
- "What goes up must come down," and the like
- "Practice makes perfect" and others
- "Poor Richard's Almanack" filler
- "Poor Richard's Almanack" contents
- "Money isn't everything" et al
- "Every dog has its day," et al
- Saws with wisdom
- Sayings like "Haste makes waste"
- Some of Bartlett's quotations
- "Beggars can't be choosers" et al.
- Truisms
- Proverbs
- Gnomes
- Almanac sayings
- Aesop's morals, e.g.
- Maxims
- "Let sleeping dogs lie" and others
- "Make hay while the sun shines" and others
- Old saws
- Bits of wisdom
- Lines from Homer and Erasmus
- "Time heals all wounds" and others
- "Poor Richard's Almanack" collection
- "Time is money" and "Knowledge is power"
- Many clichГ©s
- Aphorisms
- They're often old and wise
- Small sayings that say much
- Apothegms
- Well-known sayings
- Words to live by
- Words of wisdom
- Wise sayings
- Pithy sayings
- Wise words
- Old sayings
- Words from the wise
- Bits of advice from gramps, perhaps
- Time-honored sayings
- Memorable sayings
Wiktionary
n. (plural of adage English)
Usage examples of "adages".
It was terrible to be thus haunted by a voice: to have advice, commands, remonstrance, all sorts of saws and adages still poured upon him, and no visible wife.
He has bought two specimens of poultry, which, if there be any truth in adages, were certainly not caught with chaff, to be prepared for the spit.
Likewise, an old adage or proverb may be used to prove a point, but many adages are probably not true, e.
Foremost among them was the most basic of adages related to the art of war: The best defense is always a good offense.
All the Basque of Haute Soule believe they have special genetic gifts for meteorological prognostication based upon their mountain heritage and the many folk adages devoted to reading weather signs.