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• You should remember the adage that houses are for nesting, not investing. Times, Sunday Times
• At the local level, one's home represented the center as well, a microcosm of ordered space. 31 One of the adages recorded by Sahagún, otimatoiavi, otimetepexiuj, "thou hast cast thyself into the torrent ... from the crag," is said of someone who has crossed into the periphery with his or her behavior, one "who has placed [themselves] in danger ... who brings about that which is not good. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• Thirdly, for the mutual agreement, as being of the same kind: Sus sui, canis cani, bos bovi, et asinus asino pulcherrimus videtur, as Epicharmus held, and according to that adage of Anatomy of Melancholy
• It all proves the old adage that you wait an hour for a bus and then three come along at the same time. The Sun
• They still exchange mnemonic sayings, adages and proverbs.
• There is an old adage in survey work - the questions you ask determine the answers you get.
• If, as the adage goes, education is wasted on the young, it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters.
• Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.” Waverley
• Why, you know Tacitus saith, “In rebus bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna,” which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage, “Luck can maist in the mellee.” Waverley
• Perhaps there is some truth in that old adage about good things coming to those who wait!