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Unusual "wise" sayings?

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  • #52
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Aadhya Thankful Teflon wrote: »
    The early worm gets caught.

    The second mouse gets the cheese.


  • #53
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    It’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission


  • #54
    Kasper P
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Kasper P


    I feel sexy but my mother said that i looked better when I was younger


  • #55
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Yer a long time deid.


  • #56
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,688 ✭✭✭storker


    "The time to cut a stick is when you see it." Meaning: opportunity is fleeting. Don't waste it.

    (This phrase occurs to me a lot when I'm in Lidl. :))


  • #57
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Tis a sore fight for half a loaf!





    you dont get everything you want, life is hard work


  • #58
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    Little apples will grow again.


  • #59
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Don't bite the hand that feeds you...


  • #60
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    If at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you tried.


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  • #61
    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,304 ✭✭✭munster87


    ‘The days are long but the years are short’


  • #62
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    In between the dog and the wolf.

    It means between light and day ...between wild and tame ...a grey area ..or twilight.

    For domestic peace, it is permissible to erase the name of God. ( really like this one.)

    For pious or religious people its bad to erase gods name ...but domestic strife is worse.

    If you have to choose between a pious house and a peaceful one you must choose the latter.

    No grudges, no revenge.

    Don't depend on luck, its a weak man he'll let you down.

    A soldier who doesn't dream of being a general is going to die young.

    You don’t really see the world if you only look through your own window.


  • #63
    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,904 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    "Never believe your own bullshyt." 
    Вашему собственному бычьему дерьму нельзя верить - V Putin




  • #64
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Steer the way the crow flies


  • #65
    Snotty
    Registered Users Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭Snotty


    After he got a handjob in a pub toilet:
    "a bird with a hand is better than no Bush"


  • #66
    Hellrazer
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hellrazer


    An empty vessel makes the most noise.


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  • #67
    _Whimsical_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,958 ✭✭✭_Whimsical_


    "I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong".


  • #68
    Masala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,501 ✭✭✭Masala


    One of my favourites.........

    One in Kate Bush is worth Ten in the hand


  • #69
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Masala wrote: »
    One of my favourites.........

    One in Kate Bush is worth Ten in the hand
    :eek:


  • #70
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Sometimes contradictory..

    eg

    "He who hesitates is lost.. " and " Look before you leap."

    Depending on the situation.. ;)

    " a bad workman always blames his tools" and, " you need the right tools for the job.."


  • #71
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,782 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Keep a cool head and a dry foot.


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  • #72
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Engage brain before opening mouth


  • #73
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    giphy.gif


  • #74
    Emmersonn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Emmersonn


    One for the carpenters
    Measure twice and cut once.


  • #75
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    dartboardio wrote: »
    Penny wise pound foolish

    Our equivalent in NZ was to say someone is "All dollars and no cents (sense)"


  • #76
    twignme
    Registered Users Posts: 344 ✭✭twignme


    Fine words butter no parsnips.


  • #77
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Dead fish go with the flow.

    - Roy Keane


  • #78
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    You can't move forward if you're looking to the past.


  • #79
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    "From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce." Thomas Edison


  • #80
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush...

    My father used to say that regularly.
    My uncle used to wink when he heard it and say,
    But the birds in the Bush won't **** on your hand!


  • #81
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Referring to a local miser a friend of my father described him as, "tighter than a bull' a**e going up a hill at milking time".
    My grandfather's generation had a number of great expressions.
    Never sell a hen on a wet day": anyone who has seen how bedraggled a wet hen looks will understand that.
    "A face like the divil going to the assizes"
    "Holier than a riddle": hypocritical, a riddle being a big sieve for gravel
    "While there's a hole in my a**e and it's pointing at the ground": never.
    Said tuppence ha'penny to tuppence: I love this one for putting on airs and graces.


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  • #82
    clappyhappy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    My grandmother used always say "the bad thing about common sense is that it's not that common". I often say it at work when seeing how other people do things.


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    And my grandmother used to say, “the meanest thing you can say about someone is that ‘they mean well’”.


  • #84
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    From my carpentry apprenticeship years ago, "measure twice, cut once".
    I was a slow learner,
    "your about as useful as tits on a bull".
    I was badly paid too,
    "you're as tight as a ducks arse and that's water tight"
    I was ugly as well,
    "were you in the arse dept when they were giving out the faces"
    "if you picked your nose when you were young, you could have picked a better one".


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Two cheeks of the same arse.


  • #86
    friendlyfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭friendlyfun


    "You have eyes bigger than your belly" my father used to say it to me as a kid.


  • #87
    Bassfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭Bassfish


    If I had six hours to cut down a tree, I'd spend the first four sharpening the axe- Abraham Lincoln


  • #88
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Immortal Starlight wrote: »
    It's better to have something and not need it than to need it and not have it.
    Better to be looking at it than for it.


  • #89
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    Don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answer to


  • #90
    Notoldorwise
    Registered Users Posts: 239 ✭✭Notoldorwise


    Better to be late than be dead on time.


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  • #91
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Don’t dwell in the past or dream about the future, concentrate the mind on the present. Buddha (I think!)


  • #92
    friendlyfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,246 ✭✭✭friendlyfun


    "You couldn't chew gum and walk at the same time !


  • #93
    hoganj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭hoganj


    One I really like:

    "Don't pay interest on a loan you didn't take out."

    Meaning don't worry about something that may or may not happen in the future that you cannot control.


  • #94
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Notoldorwise wrote: »
    Better to be late than be dead on time.


    Better to be late in this world than early in the next.
    There are no pockets in shrouds.


  • #95
    eusap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭eusap


    A dog with two owners dies of starvation


  • #96
    strawdog
    Registered Users Posts: 408 ✭✭strawdog


    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
    -Robert Heinlein


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  • #97
    Lord Glentoran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    “What would you expect from a pig, but a grunt?”


  • #98
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    1. " Keep your two feet in the one stocking."

    ( Mainly aimed at teenage/young adult girls back in the day, to warn of a first time/ or one night stand that could leave the girl in trouble ,but not necessarily the lad ).

    2. "I was trying to save my face when I needed to save my arse."

    Pride/shame was holding the person back from accepting help. Accepting help saved their arse.


  • #99
    Emmersonn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Emmersonn


    you can't make a silk purse from a pig's ear


  • #100
    stratowide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭stratowide


    As a young apprentice mechanic..I was told 'Never believe a word the customer tells you,always find out for yourself.'

    This means when you ask them 'Did your engine overheat or was there any whining noise beforehand..?
    They will inevitably deny any of the above.

    Sage advice indeed.


  • #101
    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    stratowide wrote: »
    As a young apprentice mechanic..I was told 'Never believe a word the customer tells you,always find out for yourself.'

    This means when you ask them 'Did your engine overheat or was there any whining noise beforehand..?
    They will inevitably deny any of the above.

    Sage advice indeed.
    I was told the same as an apprentice. Never believe the person who was using the machine when it broke down.


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