| Pythagoras drew up a collection of adages for his disciples, and Plato, Theophrastus, and Chrysippus accumulated stores of them. |
| A person who would be always dragging in these adages would be a terrible nuisance in conversation, and no less so in literature. |
| It's one of the many adages passed down through generations by our well-intentioned mothers. |
| One of the oldest military adages has it that those who want peace prepare for war. |
| Some Rwandan adages and proverbs about Burundians point to their ungratefulness and advocate caution in dealing with them. |
| As an example of Palmer's exposition, we will give that based on two adages of like import. |
