These adages would not be accurate if one did not forget them in practise, and the professional analyst of the feminine heart had entirely forgotten them on that evening.
"Cosmopolis, Complete"
Paul Bourget Last Updated: March 3, 2009
Thus, the old adages-that corn should be planted when the leaves were as large as squirrel's ears, or that when a hen's comb isn't bright red, it isn't laying-were relinquished with reluctance.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
"Avoid a man who neither drinks nor smokes," was one of Don's adages.
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Sax Rohmer