Adage Quotes

"It`s great to be a brunet. I can sneak around downtown Los Angeles and nobody knows it`s me. I went to Starbucks to get my coffee in the morning, and they said, `What`s your name?` I said, `Oh, Renée.` Nobody even looked at me twice. My friends even walk past me. It`s fantastic because I feel so free again. That`s why I think the old adage that blonds have more fun is a presumption!" (on dying her hair brown)

I don`t think I shall live to a very old age anyway. I`ve always had that feeling, but if you can stop your body falling apart you`ve won half the battle. I believe in that adage, You are what you eat. If you eat a colossal amount of potatoes, you end up looking like one. All lumpy and knobbly-kneed. I`m not a vegetarian or anything, but I prefer fish to meat and I don`t drink milk or eat a lot of starchy foods.

There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it`s no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, ``Joy is not in things, it is in us.``