Sayings which stick with you, through your life

[crystal ball]

Better to be looking at it than looking for it

 

[SPLINE]

Manners maketh man

"Neither a borrower nor lender be"

Both of those are fundamental to being right-wing and conservative.

 

[Vinty]

Deluks said:
"Neither a borrower nor lender be".

If everyone did that
The banks would go bust in a week.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Jonathan Swift.

 

[wobs]

One thing I remind people at work: No one's ever died from being patronised.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Something you might say about a boastful person - 'if you've got a black cat, he's got a blacker 'un.'

 

[Stivino]

Something you might say about a boastful person - 'if you've got a black cat, he's got a blacker 'un.'

Or, all his/her eggs are double yokers.

 

[Brigadier]

"If you say you've been to Tenerife, he'll say he's been to Eleven-erife"

 

[RrogerD]

From my late Pa; "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day again".

And one from my (very practical) twenty-something son; "it ain't a bodge if it works"

 

[ReganAndCarter]

There's nothing to plumbing. All you have to remember is, hot water rises and sh*t runs downhill.

If you can pizz you can paint.

Chippies are people who just turn big bits of timber into smaller bits of timber and sawdust.

(Well that's 3 trades insulted. )

 

[ReganAndCarter]

If it's still broken, keep hitting it until it isn't.

 

[motorbiking]

Be careful who you pay for advice and patient with those who offer it for free

 

[johnny2007]

Chippies are people who just turn big bits of timber into small bits of timber and sawdust.

Can't say this is inaccurate...

 

[simplesteve]

Righty tighty, lefty loosey

Still use that every day