Favourite quotes or sayings?

leeCal
leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
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Just for fun I’m wondering if anyone has some favourite quotes, perhaps funny, I have his one from Stephen Wright
 “The early bird gets the worm, but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese.” ?
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  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Community member Posts: 7,879 Championing
    @Ibelive2020 posted a quote a while back and it's stuck with me ever since,

    "Don't swim an ocean for someone who won't even jump through a puddle for you" (It was something along them lines, I apologise if I have worded it wrong)
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Mine are all classics from my childhood 

    Wait till your dad gets home!!

    Shut the door were you born in a barn 

    Whats for tea mum ? 
    Bread and jam 
  • Ami2301
    Ami2301 Community member Posts: 7,879 Championing
    @janer1967 That takes me back to where I used to live, my Mum always said about the neighbours - Shut the door, were you born in a barn? To be fair though, they did always leave the entrance door open which was annoying.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited April 2021
    I like many quotes by Bob Hope, like this one.

    ”A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

    (a variation on this theme is, a bank will lend you an umbrella but if it starts raining they Want it back.)
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Any more of that bad language I will wash your mouth out with soap 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    It actually happened to someone I knew when I was a boy @janer1967
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    If you are late your dinner will be in the dog (we didn't have a dog) 
  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,563 Championing
        I don't exercise, if God had wanted me to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor ... Joan Rivers got it right  ;)
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I like this one too by Groucho Marx.

    Outside of a Dog, a Book is Man’s Best Friend. Inside of a Dog, It’s Too Dark to Read

  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    Wait untill your dad gets home 
  • Ibelive2020
    Ibelive2020 Community member Posts: 799 Empowering
    Thanks @Ami2301 hope you're áll ők xx
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    “I’d love to go visit my grown up children but they won’t move out!”
    me.

    (true up until a year ago ha ha)
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    “I’m at a place in my life when errands are starting to count as going out.”
    Anonymous.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Another quote I like is; ‘It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.’

    The quote is often attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln, but may be neither.
  • fluffycat
    fluffycat Community member Posts: 240 Empowering
    Heard a quote on a film which helped me recently. (Shopkeeper part of his family were on life-support, with no hope)


    “Bravest thing is letting someone go to a better place”

    (Slight context with death of ill pet, made slightly braver though still raw after PTS) 
  • Caz_Alumni
    Caz_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 621 Empowering
    edited May 2021
    @fluffycat That's lovely. You're right. It's particularly moving when a quote just hits home on a personal level as well At the right time and in the right context, as you say. 

    Lots of really good suggestions. I have a few in mind But I'm still trying to settle on my one preferred maxim. Hmmm?

  • chrisjordan0282
    chrisjordan0282 Community member Posts: 1 Listener
    Give each day a chance to be the most beautiful of your life.
    (Mark Twain)

  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,984 Championing
    leeCal said:
    Another quote I like is; ‘It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.’

    The quote is often attributed to Mark Twain or Abraham Lincoln, but may be neither.
    I've heard that one, quite funny, I like it :)
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,984 Championing
    Knowledge is knowing it's a one way street, wisdom is checking both ways anyway
  • Duninn
    Duninn Community member Posts: 184 Empowering
    A diamond without friction is just coal

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