Your Favourite Phrase / Adage

[Van Der Zeevalk]

Everyone usually has their own favourite phrase or adage that they identify with.
What's the one phrase that sums up your attitudes?

I'll start the ball rolling with my favourites:


* " Nice guys never finish first "
* " If it looks like a skunk, smells like a skunk,and behaves like a skunk, it has to be a skunk "

 

[Sheeds]

I have too many to list that I use.

Although last night when a friend of mine was getting friendly with this girl at Supermild I did warn him " If you sleep with a dog, chances are you'll wake up with fleas"

 

[roweman]

"flash as a rat with a gold tooth"

"smooth as hessian undies"

 

[Magpiespower]

"She f@#$ed the whole town and shook her @rse at the ruins."

"If your @rse was on fire, you'd use petrol to put it out."

"A wise man learns from a fool but a fool learns from no-one."

"I'm sweating like a rapist."

 

[beenreal]

I live by this one:

90% of all that we worry about, never actually happens.

 

[Power21]

I live by this one:

90% of all that we worry about, never actually happens.

I like that one.

 

[Powerstufff]

* 93.7% of statistics are made up on the spot. (anon)
and
* Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel. (Homer Simpson)

 

[manureid]

Confuscious say: "Man who walk through airport sideways, going to Bankok".....

 

[Toots Hibbert]

No man is an island.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

 

[Sandola]

Excellent try, Toots, but I don't think all your kind thoughts can clean up this thread!

Don't look back; something might be gaining on you. -- S. Paige

 

[Portia]

"I'd rather have that man inside my tent ********ing out, than outside my tent ********ing in" - Lyndon B. Johnson

 

[GoSarge]

When all is said and done.... More is said than done (anon)

 

[Number Eleven]

A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire.


(Like any of you would know who Voltaire was)

 

[Portia]

Unless its a pseudonym for some 80s hair band, last I heard Voltaire wrote Candide.

 

[manureid]

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?


Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

 

[scotty13]

'What are your names? Neal and Bob or is that like what u do.'
'Here's to you...... sucking my ********' - best said when doing a toast.
'You're 10 seconds away from the most embarrassing moment in your life.'
'So many assholes... So few bullets... '
'Clint Eastwood... I ********ed 'im.'
'Conversation with Zuzu Petals was like masturbating with a cheese grater: slightly amusing, but mostly painful.'
'I coulda been a fisherman. Fishermen, they get up, they fish, they sell fish, they smelt fish. Reminds me of this girl I used to go with, Yvonne, she smelled like fish. '

Gotta love Ford Fairlane!!!!!! Best movie iev seen in ages!

 

[Ferox]

A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire.


(Like any of you would know who Voltaire was)

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right tot say it" - Back at you snob.

 

[portentous]

sh it happens

 

[missionpossible]

Happiness is a state of mind not a state of being.

Life isn't fair, deal with it.

 

[Arsene Wenger]

fail to prepare - prepare to fail

 

[Hodges 153!]

You can put a cat in the oven, but it doesn't make a biscuit.

 

[missionpossible]

You can put a cat in the oven, but it doesn't make a biscuit.

just wondering if you have proved this theory or if you just ASSUME it to be correct.

 

[Ferox]

just wondering if you have proved this theory or if you just ASSUME it to be correct.

Better be careful 'cos we know what happens when you ASSUME

 

[crazy_big_al]

stupid people SH IT me to tears

 

[shaz63]

Better be careful 'cos we know what happens when you ASSUME

yeah, its justs makes an ass out of u and me