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Re: Adages - Old, New, Created, or Found

A couple funny ones I heard my dad use a few times...


He said, "You make a better door than a window" when we blocked his view of the TV set. 

 

When someone did something stupid he'd say,

"He's sharp as a tack with a head on both ends".
That one was not directed at us. 

 

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Don't do the same thing twice or you'll be doing the same thing twice --from The Tin Drum

 

 

Good advice, takes me more than twice to learn the lesson.

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Waste not, Want not.

 

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

 

"Love of money is the root of all evil."

 

Train/Teach up a child in the way s/he should go, & s/he will not depart from it.

 

"Many hands, make Light Work."

 

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My Mom used to say Get thee to a Nunnery

 

    and Get behind thee Satan

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You can only plan plans.  You can't plan results.

 

--my husband

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@Kachina624 wrote:

When describing someone's  stupidity....

 

"IF YOU PUT HIS BRAIN IN A FLEA'S A$$, IT WOULD SOUND LIKE A BEBE IN A BOXCAR"

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@Kachina624  - OMG!  This cracked me up!  Hope I can remember it.

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My father used to say, along with many others that now I can't seem to remember, the following:

 

Don't assume anything, it'll make an A** out of u and me.  I have remembered that many times and it has served me well.

 

 

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Nothing's ever as good in your hand, as it was in your head."

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some people need to use a glue stick instead of a Chapstick.