adage

But I have learned that the adages, as well as the books and the formulas were made by and for others than us of the black race.

Adages respecting the robin and the wren, generally including the martin and swallow, are common in all parts of the country.

The volume of 1500 had been jejune, written when he knew nothing of Greek; 800 adages put together with scanty elucidations.

To these two lines of patronage the Adages owed their great and immediate popularity.