Adage in a sentence as a noun

It's the old adage "if you have to ask, you cannot afford it.

> There's an old adage from the cold war that "You cannot show weakness to the enemy.

Like the old programmers adage "Days of programming save hours of planning"

Substantiating the old adage that the best camera is the one you have with you.

If you think your company hasn't, I have an adage about the sucker at the poker table for you.

We're not too worried about it, I have found that the old "the more you give the more you get" adage really has some truth to it.

It does remind me of the adage that goes, "For every complex problem there is an answer that is simple and wrong.

Remember the old adage that Microsoft would get it right by Version Three, and wipe out the competition?

It's similar to the old adage about how if you want a Linux user to help you, you have to tell them how much Linux sucks.

I assure the budding entrepreneurs out there that the old adage "Banks want to lend money to people who don't need it" holds true for VC as well.

Senior designer here...There is an old adage among designers, which couldn't be more appropriate for this post: "work for free or charge full price; never work for cheap.

" It's an adage in UX that when you see an interface that asks the user to customize the layout, it means the designers gave up trying to find the right solution themselves.

Anyone have thoughts on this gem?> I talked to one guy who's a former Goldman Sachs guy who left to go to the tech industry who said the adage in the tech world now is "be wary when the pretty people show up."

But for the higher ups and policy makers in the TSA, don't forget the old adage: It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Techdirt noted additionally that Schmidt's statement is painfully similar to the tired adage of pro-surveillance advocates that incorrectly presume that privacy's only function is to obscure lawbreaking: "If you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about.

Nevertheless, some of my friends in similar roles at other tech firms are probably enjoying their experience.> I talked to one guy who's a former Goldman Sachs guy who left to go to the tech industry who said the adage in the tech world now is "be wary when the pretty people show up.

It was actually the first distro I ever used back in the day when I started running Linux full time and increasingly had to interact with it professionally, and while I've long since moved on to other distros for a myriad of reasons, I wouldn't trade the years I spent running Slack for anything in the world,for a very simple reason, and that is that the old adage is absolutely true: when you run Distro X, you learn Distro X.

Adage definitions

noun

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

See also: proverb byword