The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Unicorn on September 08, 2009, 02:28:21 pm
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We all know or use sayings:-
Lets start a sayings thread.....
Never Judge a book by its cover
Paper never refused ink
- or to bring it upto date - Websites never refused Type or Hype ;D ;D ;D
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My ex was a real country boy, a farmers son and he had loads of them, one was "it's Black over Bills mothers" I wounderd who Bill was for ages,
I also remember a well to do female friend saying that a young boy's dad was a "Merchant Banker" I thought to myself, what a good job!!!
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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Work to live don't live to work (not managing this at the mo :'( )
It has two chances... (usually some plant or other refusing to grow)
Oh I could go on. :-[
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Anything and everything in moderation!
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A few well known horsey ones........
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.
A good horse is never a bad colour (very true)
No foot - No horse ( also very true)
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My granny was always saying to keep us quite, there's an old man in Coatbridge nae weal, for years this work till the day we asked who the man was. ;D
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My favorite one is: "The harder you work, the luckier you are". (I tell this to people a lot when they see my farm and tell me how "lucky" I am. I say, luck didn't have anything to do with it. You make your own luck.
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Faith is not belief without proof
But trust without reservation
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If your dog thinks you are the best do not seek a second opinion!
My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.
Handle every situation like a dog does, if you can't eat it or play with it, just pee on it and walk away
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I have three I live my life by... Politness costs nothing but ignorance can make you a poor man; Never rely on luck to change your life and Don't demand respect, earn it!
There are many, many more old sayings and words of wisdom that I employ on a regular basis, but these three have served me best of all over the years.
Farmer
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He that would live in peace and ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
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This too will pass
A stitch in time saves nine
Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after
you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
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There's no Accounting for Taste
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Its nice to be important - but its more important to be nice
many a true word spoken in jest
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The Earth has music for those who would listen
The trees haven't stopped talking, it's rather that we have stopeed listening!
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from little acorns bit oak tree grow.
If something is worth doing it's worth doing badly to start with.
If you don't succeed at first try try again
Never be afraid to try something new.
Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic
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What goes around comes around,
Open the door. we shall be air tight when we are dead! ( one of my grandfathers)
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stand tall and grow good (my granddad who had loads of them)
Am going to shake hands with the man am join too (often said when he visited the little boys room ,lol)
i can see what you had for breakfast (my nan if i had a short skirt on lol)
It's not the cough that carries you off... It's the coffin they carry you off in
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i can see what you had for breakfast (my nan if i had a short skirt on lol)
Where I come from, its "showing next week's washing!"
she's got a...face like a fit, ...face like a slapped arse
in bad weather "its bad at Pickery corner (a road junction about 15 miles away.. how would you know?)
Piffle, muck, its a buggmass!!
Think I'll stop there, you'll think we're weird!
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she's got a...face like a fit, ...face like a slapped arse
Face like a skelpt @rse
Face like a well slapped @rse
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Stop crying, and come here and i'll give you something to cry about
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One of my Grandmothers......
If you wish to live and thrive, let the spider run alive :hshoe:
My excuse for a house full of cobwebs ;)
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Strangers are potentially friends you haven't met yet
Fools rush in...but who want's to be last anyway!
Never regret what you didn't do...there's no point
Never go to bed on an argument...you might be sleeping next to a psychopath
A trouble shared is a trouble halved...so tell lots of people and let them have the bloody problem
farmer ;D ;D
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There plenty of time to sleep when your dead
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"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Things should be as simple as possible and no simpler" Albert Einstein
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It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have known love
(Try telling that to a young girl with a broken heart) :'( :o ::) ;D
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Time stands still for no man
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You get more with a smile and a gun, than you get with just a smile!
Al Capone
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He is so tight you couldnt drive a 6 inch nail up his ar@e with a sledge hammer...
One of grandads, brilliant.
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Focus not on what you have lost, but what you have left
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Every pound is a prisoner - for meanies
I would not give him the skin off my $hit - for someone you don't like
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Show me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who you are.
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
The wisdom of Morgans' mammy!!
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My mum always said " you make your bed, you lay in it" well how true is that, I am forever making beds but the bit about laying in them is not true, in fact, I've not tried any of them out!! :D
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There's nowt so strange as folk
In for a penny in for a pound -(never was quite sure what that meant) Possibly if you're going to commit a penny then you might as well commit fully?
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Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
He who laughs last thinks slowest! Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now.
I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.
Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? All generalizations are false.
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Great minds think alike, Fools never differ
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See yourself as others see you.
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
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Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
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If at first you don't succeed,then skydiving's not for you.
If you can walk a mile in another man's shoes,remember,you'll be a mile away and wearing his shoes.
K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid
The 7 P's - Previous Planning and Preparation Prevents Pi$$ Poor Performance.
"This milk smells off,you taste it!"