adage

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Barshay lives by the adage “Speed is your friend, and time is your enemy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Penn Mutual Managing Director Scott Ellis says that policymakers remain “at the top of our watch list…the old adage that ‘markets stop panicking when policymakers start to’ still seems to resonate.”

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Eisenhower's adage on thinking ahead came in a speech in 1957.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

The adage goes, it doesn’t have to be pretty.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

Not only did they fight the Inka, they followed the old adage about the enemy of my enemy being my friend and actually furnished supplies to Pizarro.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann