Saying of the Day.......

[FinanceDude]

I thought it would be fun to try this thread. Please share one saying per day, could be one you heard, you made up, you got from a relative, whatever.

Here's one I made up about 15 years ago: "Always leave the window of opportunity open, so the breeze of destiny can blow in"........

 

[Sue J]

My Dad's motto has always been, "Plan your work and work your plan".

 

[Dancer373]

When learning to drive my Dad would say...."it's better to be wrong than dead right". I've never forgotten that one and my children heard it many times from me

 

[Payin-the-Toll]

"The sweetness of low price is long forgot after the bitterness of poor quality and service sets in" And my old teaching standby when I was a retail manager: "The customer is NEVER right, but they're always the customer!"

 

[Midpack]

I can't confine it to one, I've collected personally meaningful adages all my life. Guess I'll contribute the one in my sig line below.

 

[grasshopper]

"No one has ever used my name and normal in the same sentence."


grasshopper

 

[deserat]

Courtesy of my Dad and Grandad - they are of a distinctly US southern flavor:

The road to hell was paved with good intentions.

Do it- it will help you build character

Don't let your alligator mouth overload your butterfly behind

Courtesy of my other grandfather:

When you are up to your a$$ in alligators, it is difficult to remember that all you wanted to do was drain the swamp.

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Fail to plan, plan to fail

 

[MichaelB]

Never kick a fresh turn on a hot day

 

[HFWR]

Always; no, wait, never...

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

Freedom is the right to obey the police.

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Dissent is treason.

 

[Sarah in SC]

[SIZE=+2]`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.[/SIZE]

 

[FUEGO]

Money can't buy happiness. It is happiness.

- Jack Donaghy

 

[Nemo2]

[SIZE=+2]`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.[/SIZE]

Stayed a couple nights, and took the pic below, (circa 1983 in Llandudno, Wales), of the building, (unfortunately since razed), once home to Alice Liddell's (Alice in Wonderland) parents:

 

[FinanceDude]

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it gives you choices"..........(my granddad, about 1973)

 

[Sarah in SC]

Stayed a couple nights, and took the pic below, (circa 1983 in Llandudno, Wales), of the building, (unfortunately since razed), once home to Alice Liddell's (Alice in Wonderland) parents:

Nemo, that is so cool! What an awesome house and I am sad that it was demolished. Neato!

 

[bbbamI]

'You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.'.....Mae West​

 

[eytonxav]

From my girl chasing years: "An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away"

 

[braumeister]

Indecision is the key to flexibility.

 

[Nuiloa]

Don't take life too seriously - you're not about to get out of it alive!

 

[Rustward]

You never get a second chance to make a first impression?

 

[Nemo2]

"We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse."

 

[Nuiloa]

I was born with nothing.... and I still have most of it left

 

[Ronstar]

Not really a saying, but I heard this on the tv show Hairy Bikers a few nights ago - "He is nuttier than a squirrel turd".

 

[TromboneAl]

Always; no, wait, never...

From Steve Martin, right? "I will always remember what my father told me: Always; no, wait, never..."