Adages, the oral transfer of knowledge between generations
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Here you will find a list of over seven hundred adages people use everyday to improve their lives. An adage is a short saying that transmits wisdom. Before people knew how to read and write, they passed knowledge by word of mouth. The word adage comes from Latin adagium (saying), formed by the prefix ad- (to, toward, about) and agium (from the verb agio, I say).
;- To Many cooks Spoil the broth. (Kitchen isn't big enough for all you so called cooks. - Thank you: Wendell Boggs)
- To thine own self be true. (Thank you: Nellie B)
- To throw good money after bad. (Thank you: Staralfur)
- Too many cooks spoils the soup. (Too many people attempting to control the same thing may ruin it. - Thank you: Devon)
- Too much is too bad and too less is too sad. (Thank you: Farhan)
- Too much sunshine doth create a desert. (Thank you: STEVEN F.)
- Too soon old, too late smart. (Thank you: Indiana)
- Too sweet to be wholesome. (Hypocritical person)
- Treat others not as you want to be treated, but how they want to be treated. (Thank you: Devon)
- Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly (The three stages of man's sexual life.)
- Truth is stanger than fiction. (some of the things that happen in real life are wilder than any author's imagination. - Thank you: Bryon)
- Trying to ignore the elephant in the room. (Trying to deny the glaringly obvious. - Thank you: Staralfur)
- Two heads are better than one.
- Two Katherines spoil the soup. (I think this derives from an old Spanish saying. Learned it from kin in Mexico. - Thank you: Katherine)
- Two words that Guarante a Happy Marrage "YES DEAR". (Thank you: Bob L)
- Two wrongs don't make a right. (Thank you: Whitley)
- Two's company, three's a crowd. (Thank you: Nellie B)
- Use your head for something other than a hat rack.
- Waiting for the other shoe to drop (From a story, where one person is sleeping in a hotel. Late another person goes to the room upstairs and stars undressing. Takes his shoe off and throws it on the floor. The thump wakes up the guest downstairs. The guest upstairs realizes that he is making too much noise and gently puts his other shoe on the floor. The guest downstairs could not go back to sleep, because he was waiting for the other shoe to drop.)
- Walk softly and carry a big stick. (Thank you: Jerry)
- Walking on thin ice. (Thank you: Carolyn)
- Waste not, want not!! (Thank you: Debra Hutcherson)
- Watch your horses ears and your neighbors eyes.
- Watch your mouth. (Please don't swear here or anywhere in the Internet)
- Water Seeks It's Own Level. (Let things go and the end up where they belong. - Thank you: Lee)
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