Old Sayings and Superstitions.

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  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,745 Championing
    'Good things come to those who wait!'  (They don't though...you have to put the effort in!)

    'You're older, you should know better!' (While your younger sibling gets away with murder...)

    'The best things in life are free' (I think this one refers to wifi hotspots.  :D )
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @OverlyAnxious or as Eddie izzard says
     “if you can’t do the time don’t buy a watch.”

    An Apple a day keeps the Doctor away (especially if your aim is good!)
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,745 Championing
    No good deed goes unpunished!
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    When the pupil is ready the teacher will appear
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,400 Championing
    Some more military ones I found funny:

    There is no such thing as friendly fire.

    If the enemy is in range, then so are you.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,400 Championing
    If something seems too good to be true, it probably is
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,177 Pioneering
    Be careful what you wish for
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,177 Pioneering
    What goes around., comes around
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,177 Pioneering
    Pride comes before a fall.
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    Two wrongs don’t make a right 
  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Online Community Member Posts: 5,745 Championing
    The grass is always greener on the other side.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,408 Championing
    I used to get told by my Mum not to pull a face because if the wind changed my face would stay like that. :s
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    When you sup with the devil use a long spoon ? 

    (another of mums favourites!)

    thunder is just the angels moving the furniture.
  • RAwarrior
    RAwarrior Online Community Member Posts: 425 Pioneering
    There’s no point crying over spilt milk.


  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Mackerel sky nere twenty four hours dry.
    ( means it will rain within 24hrs of a mackerel sky)
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,177 Pioneering
    Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky at morning sailors warning.

    I think there are many other versions of this?
    Not even sure I have it correcf?
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Tomorrow is another day.

    theres a superstition that if you spill salt you should pinch a piece of it and throw it over your shoulder, check behind you first I advise.
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Online Community Member Posts: 17,408 Championing
    @Dragonslayer - I'm never sure which way around it is, but 'Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning sailor's warning,' I 'think,' but it may be t'other way around. :)
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,400 Championing
    edited September 2020
    I’m not as think as you drunk I am!!
  • Dragonslayer
    Dragonslayer Online Community Member Posts: 2,177 Pioneering
    chiarieds said:
    @Dragonslayer - I'm never sure which way around it is, but 'Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning sailor's warning,' I 'think,' but it may be t'other way around. :)

    You have it right as I remember it. 
    Many thanks ?

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