It's not just the adage write what you know.

And then of course, there was the other adage.

And you know, there's another adage in Hollywood, that nobody knows nothing about anything.

We found the old adage, you know, The eyes are the window to the soul, absolutely true.

It's called apropos of the Italian adage that I lifted from his forward, If This Be Treason.

They also have a 3,000 year old adage, which I think is the greatest sort of diet suggestion ever invented.

Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage Be careful about what you wish for.

There's an old adage that applied for the years between 1950s and 1970s, when every aeronautical company was working on vertical takeoff aircraft.

There s wisdom, which Iran s leaders should heed, in the old adage that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

And the adage that I'm referring to, that applied at that time, was that nothing comes down faster than a VTOL aircraft upside down.

I said, is there any validity to this whole adage that when you're making decisions, it's best to take the driver's seat, be in charge, be in control?

Côte d'Ivoire is making its humble contribution to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, but we all know that, as the Ivorian adage says, one cannot ask a squatting frog for a chair.

Okay, so what this tells us is that, contrary to the old adage, monkey see, monkey do, the surprise really is that all of the other animals really cannot do that at least not very much.

After a heart attack, for example, the prognosis depends on the presence or absence of depression more than on virtually any measure of cardiac function. That is why health care policymakers should embrace a simple adage no health without mental health.

Chef Barton Seaver presents a modern dilemma Seafood is one of our healthier protein options, but overfishing is desperately harming our oceans. He suggests a simple way to keep fish on the dinner table that includes every mom's favorite adage Eat your vegetables!

So the eye for an eye adage was not intended to mean what it has come to mean, namely that killing be paid for by another killing. Given the brutality of the apartheid era, that would have never worked in my homeland.

(As the old adage has it, banks only like to lend to those who do not need money.) Economic activity is thus even more volatile than commodity prices, and much of the gains made in a boom unravels in the bust that follows.

They probably were simply following the wisdom that has come down the ages, this adage that when you're making decisions, especially decisions of importance, it's best to be in charge, it's best to be in control, it's best to be in the driver's seat.

NEW YORK If the facts don t fit the theory, change the theory, goes the old adage. But too often it is easier to keep the theory and change the facts or so German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other pro austerity European leaders appear to believe.

The updated adage for the recent bull market is one big step down, then three little steps up, again and again, so far at least. No one is looking for a sudden surge, and volatility is reduced by the absence of sharp up movements.

My method is based largely on the observation that you rarely hear of a poor bookie. So I apply the American writer Damon Runyon s famous adage The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that s the way to bet.

Better a 50 basis point increase now thereby allowing the economic recovery to continue by keeping inflation in check than triple or quadruple that figure down the road. The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies with particular force to monetary policy.