Related Clues:

• Declines to go after circular saws
• More than one saw notice over long period
• Saws taking a long time with last bits of balsa wood
• The truth of these sayings is self-evident
• Proverb or maxim
• Folk sayings
• Timeworn truisms
• 'The early bird catches the worm' and 'Better late than never,' e.g
• Fortune cookie sayings, often
• Bits of folk wisdom
• Sayings like 'Haste makes waste'
• Sayings like "Haste makes waste"
• Some almanac entries
• Geometry basics
• Collection in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations