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Kathy R

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Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

A corollary I learned in boot camp...

 

Everyone's allowed to make mistakes, just don't abuse the privilege!

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"Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something."

 

"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."

 

 

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Paul Mihalka

Moshe Dayan, after spectacularly winning the 6 day war for Israel. When asked what was the secret of his success: Well, first you have to pick the right enemy...

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"...Nothing Changes IF Nothing Changes..."

 

 

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"...Turn around - and there ya are..."

 

 

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my late father's best one ever --

 

"...everybody's got to be someplace..."

 

 

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Trust in Allah but tie up your camel.

 

 

If you want to make chicken salad, you're going to have to kill some chickens.

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JerryMather

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

ARISTOTLE 

 

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

 

" If it has tit's or wheels ... it's going to give you problems."

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My mother was a child of the great depression and she had a lot of little sayings gleaned from that era. One of those was;

 

"Smile, you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar"

 

I never understood wanting to catch flies and not something else, but I knew what she meant.

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Two from this board:

 

- 'When life throws you a curve, lean into it'

 

- There are 2 rules for success:

1-Never tell anyone everything you know.

 

 

 

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I heard this once, and it may not be exact, but you will get the idea.

 

It is a blessing to be born in a free nation, an honor to live in one, and a responsibility to die in one.

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Measure Twice, Cut Once.

 

And on more than one occasion in my workshop, this is augmented by "Curse. Get another piece of stock. Try again." :grin:

 

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

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cali_beemer

As an engineer, I always say, "It seems there is never enough time to make things right but we always have time to make them twice"

 

I am a big fan of Socrates:

 

"People admire me the most becasue I know that I know nothing"

 

Just some I have heard/used:

 

" I am living a dream....a really bad one"

 

" Its been real, its been fun.....but hasnt been real fun"

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Told to me by Rodger Blakey on owning a BMW and gear:

Buy the best and cry once

 

And my favoite one I've used on my kids:

If you want to make a good living do something no one else wants to do

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Here is a good one to guide you after a major screw-up when you are as guilty as sin:

 

"Always do the next right thing"

 

Our children can all quote this phrase. Following this principle gets life back to normal as quickly as possible with maximal damage control. Think about it.

 

Jay

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Jack Herbst

 

 

"no matter where you go, there you are"

 

"All my life I wanted to be somebody. Now I realize I should have been more specific"

 

Jack

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If it is stupid, and it works, it is not stupid.

No good deed goes unpunished.

None of us is as dangerous as all of us (a reference to things done in committee).

I before E, except after C - Weird?

If you don't know where you are going, any old road will do.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

 

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"One you have heard before as my Mom used to say "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink."

 

Horticulture:

 

You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

 

 

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Here's something Carl Sagan had said that makes me realize how amazing and under-appreciated everyday things in our life are.

 

“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”

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These are a couple of my favorites:

 

"You can never be wrong for doing the right thing"

 

"If you can't afford to do it right the first time, how can you afford to do it again?"

 

Old USSR saying - "They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work"

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Hope I'm not repeating what someone else may have posted, but I love this one: "the only problem with marrying your mistress is that it creates a job opening."

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It's really a line from Anthony's eulogy in Julius Caesar but it's become a phrase I use in striving to lead an ethical business and personal life:

 

"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;"

 

It helps me pump up the volume on the "good" stuff to overwhelm the "oft interred" stuff.

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Until you know, you don't know.

 

and from work:

The customer is never wrong for asking, but we might be wrong if we do it.

 

Sales promises, and service has to deliver.

 

 

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I'll add that I used to like/use the phrase "You can't suck and blow at the same time" but then I met a guy who played the bagpipes. :rofl:

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I never had the opportunity to meet Gleno, he was gone a few months before Sharon and I found the board. But one of his made it's way to my attention, and has stuck. Something like:

 

I like Noob, tastes like chicken.

 

I can only imagine what he was like in person, but I definitely had the sense that the laughter and outgoing hospitality didn't get much of break.

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Someone just showed me this:

 

The 3 C's of life: choices, chances and changes ~ You must make a choice to take a chance or your life will never change

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It's funny that Gleno came up in the thread just now. I just this morning said to someone:

"Life is great - participate."

 

(As soon as it came out of my mouth, I knew it belonged in this thread.)

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One I've seen in many repair shops over the years:

Labor Rate:

$20/hour

$30/hour (if you watch)

$50/hour (if you help)

 

 

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Some great ones in this thread. Ever notice how many show up on t-shirts?

 

Here are a couple of my old favorites.

 

Do or don't do, there is no try. -Yoda-

 

I am surrounded by people who cannot do what I do but are certain I am doing it wrong. -?-

 

The early bird doesn't get the worm who slept in. -Dad-

 

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -Emerson-

 

One may smile and smike and yet be a villian. -Shakespeare-

 

No one says on their deathbed, Geez, I wish I had spent more time at the office.

 

And the one I never tire of hearing (but don't hear often enough - but that's a personal problem):

- Meg Ryan in a diner in When Harry Met Sally

 

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Paul Mihalka
One I've seen in many repair shops over the years:

Labor Rate:

$20/hour

$30/hour (if you watch)

$50/hour (if you help)

 

Obsolete. Make it x5.

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