Your favourite quotes and sayings.

[Whisp]

"A stranger is a friend that you have not yet met"

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

 

[Nightjar]

"Ageing seems to be the only available way to live a long life."

 

[Goldfreak]

Sixty percent of the time, it works every time.

That doesnt even make any sense and why am I brushing my teeth with a lobster ?

 

[StoneTheCrows]

My pop used to say this every sunday to granma before they went for their Sunday drive

Go put on your makeup and your paint
and make yourself what you aint.

Silly but I have never forgotten it...

 

[Manpa]

Saw this the other day and it struck a chord.

Words are just fiction, actions are truth. (Attributed to Marcus Aureleus)

 

[fwdoz]

My dad used to say:

Self praise is no recommendation

and also:

Mad as a cut snake

 

[thedigger]

Mark Twain
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

We all know what that applies to today!!

 

[thedigger]

How true this is.

"We live in times where smart people are silenced so stupid people won't be offended."
Unknown

 

[Jaros]

"A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link"

 

[Nightjar]

Avoid loud and aggressive persons they are vexations to the spirit.

Extract from Desiderata - Max Ehrmann - 1927 (Found the full version many years ago and to this day have it on display at home.)

 

[Mackka]

My Sister In Law has it on the back of the toilet door, a great read.
Mackka

 

[Jaros]

I like the whole paragraph actually.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans

.Extract from Desiderata - Max Ehrmann - 1927

 

[numpty]

A jellyfish has existed as a species for 500 million years, surviving just fine without a brain. That gives hope to quite a few people.

 

[numpty]

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

 

[numpty]

A true optimist is the guy who falls off a skyscraper and after 50 floors thinks to himself well, so far so good!

 

[numpty]

Any of us has the capacity to light up a room. Some when they enter, others when they leave it.

 

[numpty]

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

 

[numpty]

Doing nothing is hard, you never know when youre done.

 

[goody2shoes]

Shut up before I hit you in the lug hole my mum would say

 

[Mackka]

" You wait till your Father gets home!"
Mackka 8.( 8.(