Quotes or sayings

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

One of my dad's mantras

It's not what you say that matters - it's how you say it.

Why I don't really go with folk substituting any old word for a sweary as if that changes things - when the intent of what is said remains.

I was never much amused by the advert tag line for the builders supply company that went "We've got the Jewson lot"

 

[Blue in Munich]

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."

And to steal one from a Christmas advert;

"It's not what's under the tree that matters, it's who's around it."

 

[Norrin Radd]

one for the old gits


never pass by a toilet.
never waste an erection.
and never trust a fart.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Both my grandfathers were joiners and that is one that has been passed down. Saved me making a mess on more than one occasion !

My dad was a cabinet maker and he'd remind me that in such as a mortise and tenon joint - 1" does not go into 1"

 

[drdel]

"Empty vessels make most sound"

My old boss " since you're late you should have started earlier" and " you don't need a holiday, just think you had one last week"

 

[gregers]

one for the old gits


never pass by a toilet.
never waste an erection.
and never trust a fart.

painter at work shouldve taken heed of the last 1 bill,couple of weeks ago he decided to follow through and didnt know the other painter took a pic to prove it to him.so off he went home to change couple of hours later he done the same thing so off home he went for a couple of days.
did we all laff,YOU BET WE DID.:lol:

 

[upsidedown]

On the weather front, 'It's a bit black over Bill's Mother "

 

[ColchesterFC]

On the weather front, 'It's a bit black over Bill's Mother "

First time I heard that saying I was playing for our cricket team and our captain was called Bill. Playing in an away game and the clouds were getting quite dark. One of our players said "It's a bit black over Bill's mothers". As a naive 17 year old I replied "I didn't know Bill's mum lived near here".

 

[GreiginFife]

Another weather front (pardon the pun)...

If you can't see the hills, it's raining
If you can see the hills, it's about to rain

 

[Smiffy]

 

[bobmac]

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[Tongo]

Oscar Wilde: "What is a cynic? Someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

So true in the world that we live in.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Sometimes your own wellbeing is best served by doing that which you don't want to do

 

[delc]

"Youth is wasted on the merely very young." Oscar Wilde.

 

[Baldy Bouncer]

"Never give a sucker an even break" W.C.Fields.

 

[Norrin Radd]

who took the cork out of my breakfast....also W.C. Fields.

 

[Smiffy]

"I don't care if he's Mohammad I'm hard Bruce Lee. You can't change fighters"

 

[Norrin Radd]

"I don't care if he's Mohammad I'm hard Bruce Lee. You can't change fighters"

my favourite film of all time Rob.
Do you know what nemesis means? a righteous affliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent personified in this case by an orrible **** me

 

[pokerjoke]

Ask no questions get told no lies

 

[teetime75]

Handsome is as Handsome does.

My Mother commenting on Sisters boyfriend.