Proverbs for living.

[Ded Driver]

Wisdom comes with knowing you can never know all there is to know

 

[PMac77]

Dont grow a wishbone where a backbone should be

 

[Bush Chook]

While not strictly a proverb per se, it's still indicative of a damn good formulation for life. Given by none other than Winston Churchill after the rising of the House of Commons one night in 1946, it is an exchange between him and an MP from the other side of that House:

Bessie Braddock MP: Winston, you are drunk, and whats more you are disgustingly drunk.
Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and whats more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober.

 

[reefer]

where there's a will...there's a relative...my old man.

 

[nuggetino]

The past is history, the future a mystery, the present a gift.

Don't take life too seriously, you may never get out alive.

Keep in touch with your old friends for it isn't easy to make new old friends.

It is only when we leave our comfort zone that we stretch to our greatest potential.

Grab life by the balls - Dodge ball

 

[Wishfull]

One from my favourite long gone Aunty Jeane Bowman (yes with an " e" )

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus

 

[Bush Chook]

This one apparently originally from Japan:

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

 

[Bush Chook]

And another:

"Don't set yourself on fire to keep others warm."

 

[pagan prospector]

A wolf never looses
he wins
or he learns
be like the wolf
Pagan P

 

[diggit]

Don't dream about Success, work hard for it.

 

[Gpx5000]

You'll be nothing, you need a bomb up your backside!
Mr Thompson, my school head master.
Look at me now, retiring at 50, going to travel oz and prospect for gold.

 

[Bjay]

Shit happens. If it doesnt ya got problems.

 

[xcvator]

The harder I work the luckier I get

Not quite a proverb but I like the saying from J.F.K
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

 

[RM Outback]

You'll be nothing, you need a bomb up your backside!
Mr Thompson, my school head master.
Look at me now, retiring at 50, going to travel oz and prospect for gold.

Mr Thompson sounds like he went to uni with my Principal Mr Mcginnus, called me in on my 16th birthday and said I was free to leave :lol: I said thanks for the info obviously you know it's my birthday so I'll let you know first I'm enjoying my time here so I'll hang around a little bit longer :lol: he and I struggled within 50 metres of each other.

Don't waste time on those without time for you.

 

[StoneTheCrows]

Do what you have to do
So you can do what you want to do

My work motto.

 

[Wishfull]

If you want something to change, you have to change something.

 

[Dihusky]

Not so much a proverb but some words of wisdom I was given by the head of the Apprentice Training School at AEC where I first started a trade. The first year I loved, heaps of variety and learning a lot, after that I was stuck with a bunch of dreary old shop floor workers and I was bored out of my brain and wanted to quit.

He sat me down and told me that if I quit now, I may as well have not lived for the last 3.5 years as I will walk away with nothing. I stayed and finished and am for ever grateful for his wisdom.

 

[diggit]

"There is no I in team but there are two in idiot."

Diggit circa 2016

 

[RM Outback]

"There is no I in team but there are two in idiot."

Diggit circa 2016

There's no "I" in Team but there is a "Me" if you mix up few letters

 

[Flowerpot]