What're your favourite quotes and sayings?

Were you born in a barn?

 

If somethings not as it seems...

"just because it says Dennis ,
On fire engines....
doesn't mean he's driving it .."

 

They wouldnt know sh#t from dirty toothpaste. Thats not my Grans saying

 

“I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts” - Aristotle

 

Gandhi actually said "If you want to get ahead, get a dhoti"

 

"A bird in the hand is worth eleventy in the bush" - Dianne Abbott.

 

A couple I use to describe my wife.

“She’s as thick as a bible.”

“She makes a plank of wood look like a computer.”

Here a good description of an old boss of mine “he’s all money and no manners”

A description of my old labrador “he’s as soppy as a box of lights”

 

"All fur coat and no knickers"

 

Inspired by the Gregg's thread, I am reminded of old storming Norman, an old mechanic I worked with, who once mused "you'll eat a bit of Marmite before ye die"

 

Another one I use to describe my wife

“ she’s had more pri@@s than a second hand dart board”

 

I often say ‘The best in life aren’t things’.

I try hard to impress upon my own kids (and ones I teach) that material stuff isn’t the most important thing. It’s other things like family, health and experiences.

Don’t get me wrong...I’m not some weirdo who lives in a teepee and gives away all my worldly belongings! I just think it’s important to remember that so much importance is put on ‘stuff’.

 

My dad talks about ‘Bill’s’ mum...

Must be his brother?

 

alternatively...............red hat,no drawers

 

Bill is short for William hence will and bill

 

“If it don’t fit, don’t force it” - Gandhi

 

“Eeeh, where’s there’s muck there’s brass! “ Kofi Annan in recent speech to the UN Security Council.

 

"It's nobbut rocks" - Stan Arkwright, first Yorkshireman on the moon.

 

“Eeh, you’re not backward in coming forward!” King Richard Coeur de Lion on first meeting Saladin the Great.

 

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

 

Nothing weighty or famous, but:

Who's coat is that jacket?
Tom Jones

All mouth and no trousers
Ryland Clark

Methinks (whoever) doth protest too much
Mrs H

The words pot kettle and black spring to mind
Me

Well 'al gooo 't our ous!
Lasty

Many a mickle makes a muckle
Knasher

If I had a pound for every time (whatever) I'd be rich

Married 25 years ... If I was a great train robber I'd be free now and loaded
Late Father in law