We hear and read ‘Old Sayings’ all the time. It occurred to me that many have been put into song, some verbatim and some just referred to. Here are a few I thought of, and I invite TIMES readers to add to the list as well.

Beauty is only skin deep. The Temptations released a recording in 1966 using the entire line as the song’s title. They added ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah.’

All is fair in love and war. The brilliant 1973 album Innervisions by Stevie Wonder featured a song titled, All in Love is Fair.

Don’t rock the boat. Also from 1973, The Hues Corporation had a big hit record, Rock the Boat.

Easier said than done. A #1 hit in 1963 for The Essex.

Child is father to the man. This appeared on the debut album of Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968.

A fool and his money are soon parted. Paul McCartney wrote a song titled Come and Get It for Badfinger and also appeared on the record. A line from the song is, ‘Will you walk away from a fool and his money.’

Knock on wood. Eddie Floyd recorded this hit in 1966 with the great lyrics ‘You better knock, knock, knock … on wood.’

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place. This was refuted by Lou Christie in his 1965 hit Lightning Strikes, by singing, ‘Lightning is striking again and again and again and again.’

Every picture tells a story. A 1971 hit by Rod Stewart who asked, ‘Every picture tells a story, don’t it?’

Love will find a way. A 1978 hit by the group Pablo Cruise with the encouraging line. ‘So keep your heart open ‘cause love will find a way.’

Better to wear out than rust. The album Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young features his hit My My, Hey Hey where he states, ‘It’s better to burn out than to fade away.’

Easy come, easy go. This was the title to a song first released by Mama Cass in 1969, but Bobby Sherman made it a hit in 1970.

Fake it till you make it. In their huge album Bookends, Simon & Garfunkel’s song, Fakin’ It, delivers this admission, ‘I’ve just been fakin’ it, not really makin’ it. This feeling of fakin’ it, I still haven’t shaken it.’

All things must pass. This saying has its roots in the Bible and George Harrison titled a song and his double album All Things Must Pass.

It never rains but it pours. Albert Hammond’s 1972 hit, It Never Rains in Southern California delivers this line, ‘It never rains in California, but girl don’t they warn ya, It pours … man it pours.’

Two heads are better than one. In her blockbuster album Court & Spark, on Joni Mitchell’s version of Twisted she sings, ‘Because instead of one head, I got two. And you know two heads are better than one.’

You can’t always get what you want. This same titled Rolling Stones monster hit adds to these words of wisdom by adding, ‘But if you try sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.’