What're your favourite quotes and sayings?

"The labourer is worthy of his hire" (or hers - note @Merlin Cat , when you're pricing plumbing jobs)

"It's a poor heart that rejoiceth not"

"Be careful what you wish for"

"Don't swing that about, you'll have someone's eye out"

 

"Shut that door, you're letting all the heat out"

 

Aneurin Bevan, said in 1952

"Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets."

"We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land."

George Orwell

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices."

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."


For me, both were and are absolute visionaries for the world in which we now live.

 

Cornish one’s

You’re as much use as a fart in a colander

‘Dreckly’. - means whenever I’m ready.

 

Luxuries become commodities, commodities become necessities

 

It says "India" on the bus tyres but there not going there

 

My Dad always used to say " It says Bisto on Barnsley busses, but they don't sell it "

 

Over our back door I've a sign that says
"Don't take life too, nobody gets out alive"

 

That’s the Cat calling the kitten hairy arsed.

The things you see when you haven’t got a gun.

 

“Who’s she, the cat’s mother?”

 

Your as good as a fart in a thunderstorm

 

"job's a good 'un!"
"give a dog a bad name!"
& Bazza's fave "it's not the size of the boat........"
My all time fave is Chaucer "Hardeth the heart that loveth nought in May"

 

"Bob's yer auntie's live-in lover"

 

Are you Larry grayson?

 

It's big enough ta fill a pram

 

If your auntie had baws she'd be your uncle.

 

From the frozen North :-

"Put t`wood in t`ole an` save some coal`

A Southern translation would be along the lines of :-

"Please close the door and save some energy ..."

 

"Tables are for glasses not arses" My Gran.