The Adage
Collection

“Quiet depth carries more life than noisy shallows can display.”

“Noise often rises where substance has not settled.”

“A full barn keeps its silence.”

“Maturity lowers the posture without reducing the worth.”

“Still fire burns longest.”

“The well that feeds the village never boasts of its depth.”

“Substance gives; emptiness advertises.”

“The oldest wine sits in the darkest cellar.”

“Weight settles; froth floats.”

“Abundance teaches humility to whatever can bear its weight.”

“Deep soil grows slow trees.”

“A quiet forge shapes the hardest steel.”

“True authority performs its work without campaigning for notice.”

“Great roots need no announcement.”

“The most dependable strength often works below the line of sight.”

“Every beginning carries instructions for an ending.”

“The stone thrown high lands hardest.”

“Neglected weakness eventually negotiates the fate of the whole structure.”

“What you feed grows teeth.”

“Disaster often begins as permission granted to something small.”

“The crooked seed bears a crooked tree.”

“Yesterday's mud is today's road.”

“Slow rot is still rot.”

“Life returns the tone we repeatedly send into it.”