RodB Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 The early bird gets the worm....the second mouse gets the cheese. Link to comment
chrisd Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. Link to comment
Matts_12GS Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 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! Link to comment
VinnyR11 Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 We have this saying sitting on our counter. It's something we try to abide by. "Never let yesterday use up today." Link to comment
Foot Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 When in doubt, throw it out! Wisdom from my dad: It's a fine line between a rut and a grove. Link to comment
EddyQ Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I slept like a baby last night . . . . Woke up every hour and cried. Link to comment
Antimatter Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something." "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." Link to comment
Paul Mihalka Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 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... Link to comment
hANNAbONE Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 "...Nothing Changes IF Nothing Changes..." ======================================= "...Turn around - and there ya are..." ======================================= my late father's best one ever -- "...everybody's got to be someplace..." ======================================= Link to comment
sardineone Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 "sometimes you get to eat chicken, sometimes you get to eat feathers" "if ignorance is bliss, he's full of bliss" Link to comment
Richard_D Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. Link to comment
1LIFE2LIVE Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Life is SHORT ! None of us can afford any Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda's !! Link to comment
K9_RN Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 What if there was no such thing as a hypothetical situation? Link to comment
SANTA Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 do it once; do it right Make it as tough as a brick $h!thouse... Link to comment
Paul_Burkett Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Hind sight is 20/20, foresight is legally blind. Link to comment
Rockrib Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Trust in Allah but tie up your camel. If you want to make chicken salad, you're going to have to kill some chickens. Link to comment
Paul Mihalka Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Dirty Harry: A man's gotta know his limitations... Link to comment
Kathy R Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 What if there was no such thing as a hypothetical situation? Link to comment
JerryMather Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 "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." Link to comment
MT Wallet Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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. Link to comment
RodB Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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. Link to comment
brennaman Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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. Link to comment
Joel Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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." If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. Link to comment
cali_beemer Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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" Link to comment
graydude Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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 Link to comment
JayW Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 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 Link to comment
Tank Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Try doing these two things at the same time: Look before you leap --- He who hesitates is lost Link to comment
MotorinLA Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 From a British Navy personnel review: "This sailor is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot." Link to comment
Jack Herbst Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 "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 Link to comment
scout6 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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. Link to comment
doc47 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 "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. Link to comment
VinnyR11 Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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.” Link to comment
Natche Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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" Link to comment
Kathy R Posted March 16, 2011 Author Share Posted March 16, 2011 Man oh man, you folks have me both thinking and rolling with laughter Link to comment
marcopolo Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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." Link to comment
cali_beemer Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 "marriage is the leading cause for divorce." "why are divorces so expensive? because they are worth it." Link to comment
Rocer Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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. Link to comment
Quinn Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 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. ---- Link to comment
Rocer Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 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. Link to comment
Gregori Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. Link to comment
Twisties Posted March 17, 2011 Share Posted March 17, 2011 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. Link to comment
Kathy R Posted March 18, 2011 Author Share Posted March 18, 2011 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 Link to comment
Rinkydink Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 61 seconds is all it takes, to be more than one minute late. The Outfield Link to comment
Gregori Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 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.) Link to comment
Albert Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 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) Link to comment
DiggerJim Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 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 Link to comment
Polo Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 "YOUR lack of planning is not MY emergency." Link to comment
Paul Mihalka Posted March 18, 2011 Share Posted March 18, 2011 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. Link to comment
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