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Unusual "wise" sayings?

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  • #102
    dennyire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭dennyire


    He who walks by the seashore will see many waves


  • #103
    LaFuton
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 784 ✭✭✭LaFuton


    man who go sleep with itchy hole will wake with smelly finger!


  • #104
    dennyire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭dennyire


    He is like the left cheek of a black mans a**e......neither right nor fair


  • #105
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Live by the sword, die by the sword.

    Nothing worth knowing, can be understood by the mind.

    Emmersonn wrote: »
    you can't make a silk purse from a pig's ear

    I know someone who could make a pig's ear from a silk purse though.


  • #106
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭nthclare


    Empty vessels make more noise


  • #107
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Once you go black you can never go back!


  • #108
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Bobblehats wrote: »
    Once you go black you can never go back!

    Clearly, not applicable to Michael Jackson


  • #109
    Mrcaramelchoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,795 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    We have 5 minutes fuel left.


  • #110
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Clearly, not applicable to Michael Jackson


    Once he went white he was actually alright.


  • #111
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Said to me while munching away on a chocolate bar,Well Djimi, I see you want to die fat and happy and not thin and miserable


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  • #112
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    We're gonna need a bigger boat.





    wiser words have never been uttered.


  • #113
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,865 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    Said to me while munching away on a chocolate bar,Well Djimi, I see you want to die fat and happy and not thin and miserable

    A sly dig if ever there was one!


  • #114
    dartboardio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,436 ✭✭✭dartboardio


    If you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.

    The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.


  • #115
    Emmersonn
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭Emmersonn


    dartboardio wrote: »

    The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
    He/She did'nt lick that from a stone


  • #116
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    A good run is better than a bad stand


  • #117
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Emmersonn wrote: »
    you can't make a silk purse from a pig's ear
    It's been done. But it wasn't easy.


  • #118
    mr.anonymous
    Registered Users Posts: 481 ✭✭mr.anonymous


    Heard a good one today about someone who has to be the centre of attention. They're "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."


  • #119
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Honesty is the road to poverty.


  • #120
    sonandheir
    Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭sonandheir


    "He's worse than a bad ass, can neither lead him nor drive him"


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  • #121
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,536 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Smelt it, dealt it!

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #122
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,514 ✭✭✭valoren


    A fool and his money is some party.


  • #123
    ITman88
    Registered Users Posts: 876 ✭✭✭ITman88


    valoren wrote: »
    A fool and his money is some party.

    I’ve heard it as a fool and his money are easily parted!!


  • #124
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Wtf does 'You can't teach your Grandmother to suck eggs' mean?


  • #125
    mr.anonymous
    Registered Users Posts: 481 ✭✭mr.anonymous


    dd973 wrote: »
    Wtf does 'You can't teach your Grandmother to suck eggs' mean?

    I think it's "that's like teaching your granny to suck eggs", meaning that would be showing you something you know already!


  • #126
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    I learned him everything he knows, but not everything I know.


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  • #127
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭boardise


    fineso.mom wrote: »
    'Handle it once'... In relation to tidying/sorting. Basically, if you pick something up, put it down where it's going to stay.

    Great example of this ..my folks drive me spare when they check lotto tickets and leave them lying around. Then weeks later someone wonders is there anything on them so big fuss as the numbers have to be checked again .
    Discard losing tickets immediately -the numbers are not going to change !!


  • #128
    kingchess
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭kingchess


    Confucius had a great saying about how to appear confident,he said - "Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day"..


  • #129
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    If you can't run with the big dogs... stay under the porch.


  • #130
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,928 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    They have champagne taste with a beer budget.


  • #131
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    ef602f5ecde865ad1f52f97b6d424470--funny-man-its-funny.jpg


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  • #132
    CageWager
    Registered Users Posts: 545 ✭✭✭CageWager


    “Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.”


  • #133
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Not my circus, not my monkeys.


  • #134
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Not my circus, not my monkeys.

    I love this, but since I heard it once, I hear it everywhere!

    Where does it come from?


  • #135
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Wiki says it's an old Polish proverb... I didn't know there were circus's back in the day.

    I heard it first from someone who said it was a Polish saying too..
    .


  • #136
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    There was always circuses... Always lol!


  • #137
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    mr.anonymous wrote: »
    I think it's "that's like teaching your granny to suck eggs", meaning that would be showing you something you know already!

    Well thanks for clearing that one up.


  • #138
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    kingchess wrote: »
    Confucius had a great saying about how to appear confident,he said - "Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day"..
    Confucius him say " Man who goes to bed with itchy hole wake up with smelly finger "


  • #139
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,154 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Not my circus, not my monkeys.

    Latvian version is Not my field, not my pigs... as in I have no dog in this fight?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #140
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Locks are only for honest people


  • #141
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    "You can't get blood out of a turnip".. old Orkney saying.

    "Il faut manger pour vivre mais pas vivre pour manger, " old French saying,

    "Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme.. "


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  • #142
    Snails pace
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Snails pace


    He would be a horse of a man if he could shít standing up.


  • #143
    Rufeo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Rufeo


    silverharp wrote: »
    A Russian one I heard recently, eat breakfast alone, eat lunch with a friend and give your dinner to your enemy

    Where did u hear that


  • #144
    Robert2012
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Robert2012


    You can't polish a turd.


  • #145
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,058 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Mind the gap


  • #146
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Robert2012 wrote: »
    You can't polish a turd.
    but you can dip it in glitter


  • #147
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,474 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin

    Níl aon tóin tinn mar do thóin tinn féin.


  • #148
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    fineso.mom wrote: »
    'Handle it once'... In relation to tidying/sorting. Basically, if you pick something up, put it down where it's going to stay.

    As with all things there are exceptions. I worked as a gardener in another life and we were digging out Horsetail roots and were in a hole about 6 foot down. The foreman took this handling once to the letter so when we had dug out a handful he made me climb out of the hole and put them in the truck.

    Would have been far easier to throw the roots up on the bank in a pile and then put them in the truck in the end ie handling them twice, instead of having to climb in and out of the hole dozens of times!


  • #149
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Handling horsetail roots I would do the same. Never let them touch earth once you have them out as they shed fibres fast.

    amadangomor wrote: »
    As with all things there are exceptions. I worked as a gardener in another life and we were digging out Horsetail roots and were in a hole about 6 foot down. The foreman took this handling once to the letter so when we had dug out a handful he made me climb out of the hole and put them in the truck.

    Would have been far easier to throw the roots up on the bank in a pile and then put them in the truck in the end ie handling them twice, instead of having to climb in and out of the hole dozens of times!


  • #150
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    From a market stall

    "Will customers please not lean against the bacon machine as we are getting a little behind with our orders..."


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  • #151
    amadangomor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭amadangomor


    Graces7 wrote: »
    Handling horsetail roots I would do the same. Never let them touch earth once you have them out as they shed fibres fast.

    Maybe that was his logic :). If he explained it I would have suggested bagging them straight away.


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