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Wise sayings ... do you have any of your own?


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1 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.

 

2 - Half the people you know are below average. 

 

3 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 

 

4 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.


 

5 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

6 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

7 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

 

8 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

9 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

 

10 - When everything is coming your way, you're on the wrong side of the road.

 

11 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

 

12 - Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

 

13 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

14 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. 

15 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.


16 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. 

17 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. 

18 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

 

19 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

20 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.

 
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From another thread discussing the pros and cons of moving with a young family and no prospect of a job to the back of beyond in the middle of nowhere in France, I merely pointed out that the grass is greener on the otherside because of an excess amount of (metaphoric) manure on it, to which someone else refined that to :

The grass is greenest over the septic tank!

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When all else fails, read the directions.

He who laughs last probably doesn't understand the joke.

Never hit a guy with glasses. Always use your fists.

True friends always stab you in the front.

Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.

It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a better defense.

Forgive your enemies, but remember their names.

Louise [:)]

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It never rains but it pours.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

Many hands make light work.

Great minds think alike.

Fools never differ.

Who dares wins.

Only fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Better the devil you know.

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[quote user="Cassis"]Not true - lots of men do breakfast, too. Well, they deserve some sort of reward after 10 minutes work, don't they?  [/quote]

Quite right too that men should do breakfast. Who are 'they' ?...  The reward you get after YOUR 10 minutes of work, my Sausage, is to do me breakfast!

[kiss]

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When in doubt, do nowt (or say nowt ) - one of my father's who was a very quiet man, maybe always in doubt. And one that my last boss had stuck on his wall - a problem shared is a problem 2 people have. You can tell what kind of a person he was. Pat.

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