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Your fav sayings, includes ones that you claim as your own

Don't judge a book by it's cover....Women and children first....You reap what you sew...
 
"Don't take any guff from those swine"
 
From here and there:

You get no bread with one meatball; (credit to Eric Von Schmidt, maybe?)

The blind man picked up the hammer and saw;

(to women with neon colored hair) Were you struck by lightening?;

Hey little girl, want a piece of rye bread?:

and an honoraries to Mae West's "Is that a pickle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

&

Groucho Marx's "Tissue, I hardly even know you?"

From my grandkids: "Mom! Grandpa's throwing food at us again!" From mom: "If he's throwing pistachios, pick them up and bring them to me. Anything else, get paper towels and clean up."
 
Lord please let me live long enough to give my kids kids a ton of sugar and then leave with a smile on my face..me.

Do as I say, not as I do..my father.

I feel like a penny waiting for change..who knows?
 
bongsaway said:
Lord please let me live long enough to give my kids kids a ton of sugar and then leave with a smile on my face..me.

Do as I say, not as I do..my father.

I feel like a penny waiting for change..who knows?
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“If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” ~ Gandhi
 
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Martin Niemöller
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"For those that scrimp and save for the future, the future never comes" Samuel Johnson, paraphrased

"Fortune favors the bold." unk

"If you want to live, you've got to gamble" unk or me, not sure

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." Abe Lincoln/debated

“Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.” Samuel Johnson
 
for those who frequently post in the 'what are you listening to' thread, this is for you:
Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ~ Frank Zappa
 
Govern yourself or someone will govern for you.
 
? "Let the other guy die for his country"
Me: "If you want a simple life, go raise rice in a rice paddy in China"
Me: "Getting old is a long and dangerous journey. I hope you make it, Sonny!"
Me & my license plate frame: "Getting old is Dumb Luck"
Amarillo Slim?: "If you don't know who the mark is at the table, it's you"
 
"If a musical phrase could be translated into words at all it would become an adjective" - CS Lewis

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” - Dr. Suess

To a friend of mine who was stressing about the cost of a fishing trip he was planning with his aging father:

"Let me put it to you this way, from my experience, when he's gone it won't be the money you'll be missing."
 
"Fear is a worthless emotion, but caution is always advised."

To my children some they are told repeatedly and often:

"Excuses are worthless."

"Knowledge is the one thing no one can ever take from you."

"It is you that will bear the consequences of your actions and inactions."

"Action and inaction are the same thing. Both were a decision."

"Life is a competition with other people."

While indicating someone at an ordinary blue collar job working at fast foods, behind a counter, at checkout line doing the cash register, stocking shelves, a yard crew... to ask this: "Is that the type of job you want to have your entire adult life? If not, how are you going to avoid that because that is where most people end up as adults."

There are quite a few others.
 
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After thought on our children. When one of our children explains the teacher is being hard on that child on assignments and in grading. "We asked the teacher to be hard on you, assuring the teacher you can do it - because we know you can."

Oh yes... To being told "this is an optional extra school project." Reply, "No, it's not."
 
I put my current favorite sayings in my sig. None of them are my own.

I have two favorite sayings that are my own: You are dismissed. Moving on...
 
  • More drama than daytime television.
  • Taylor Coleridge references, for instance:
    • That takes too much "Taylor Coleridge"
    • Have to channel "Taylor Coleridge"
    • Not even Taylor Coleridge would buy that.
  • Insults:
    These are less sayings than my merely "flexing" my vocabulary and my disdain for banal aspersions. (I'm not above a banal epithet from time to time, but they're not usually my first choice.) The thing with these is that they're venal if one just uses them directly. In general, they work best when used as a adjectival phrase in conjunction with a depiction of a specific activity/behavior someone undertook or exhibited.
    • Orgy of subhuman indecency
    • Acidly acrimonious buggering buttock bandit
    • Feculent simple-minded mental midget
    • Sub-literate simple minded mental midget --> This phrase is one I've had ample occasion to use in the past three years.
    • Excrement stain on a Sumo Wrestler's underpants
    • With the grace of an intoxicated beluga whale
    • Proof that test tube experiments can go horribly wrong
    • Ambulatory advertisement for a condom factory
    • Chromosome-deficient test tube experiment
    • Malingering dreg of the Internet
    • Conspicuously sybaritic neanderthal
 
Xelor said:
  • More drama than daytime television.
  • Taylor Coleridge references, for instance:
    • That takes too much "Taylor Coleridge"
    • Have to channel "Taylor Coleridge"
    • Not even Taylor Coleridge would buy that.
  • Insults:
    These are less sayings than my merely "flexing" my vocabulary and my disdain for banal aspersions. (I'm not above a banal epithet from time to time, but they're not usually my first choice.) The thing with these is that they're venal if one just uses them directly. In general, they work best when used as a adjectival phrase in conjunction with a depiction of a specific activity/behavior someone undertook or exhibited.
    • Orgy of subhuman indecency
    • Acidly acrimonious buggering buttock bandit
    • Feculent simple-minded mental midget
    • Sub-literate simple minded mental midget --> This phrase is one I've had ample occasion to use in the past three years.
    • Excrement stain on a Sumo Wrestler's underpants
    • With the grace of an intoxicated beluga whale
    • Proof that test tube experiments can go horribly wrong
    • Ambulatory advertisement for a condom factory
    • Chromosome-deficient test tube experiment
    • Malingering dreg of the Internet
    • Conspicuously sybaritic neanderthal
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You, and the badguy from Mortal Kombat are the only two people that I've ever heard use the word, 'feculent'.
 
JANFU said:
Your fav sayings, links if you have them, and includes ones that you claim as your own
Add your own.

Mine
3 things one notices when growing old (male perspective)

Winters get longer

Summers get shorter

Women get prettier

Jump in the waters warm
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Never pet a dog that is on fire.

I once heard Johnny Carson say that, I am certain it was written by Pat McCormick
 
No you can't always get
What you want
But if you try sometimes
Well you might find
You get what you need

— Keith Richards, Mick Jagger
 
Mine:

We don't always end up where we think we will, but we usually end up where we should.
 
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell
 
Thou shalt acknowledge the wonder. -- D.H. Lawrence


It's only too late if you don't start now. -- Barbara Sher
 
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