“An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.”
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
“Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)”
“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”
“The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.”
“Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--”