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Unusual "wise" sayings?

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    #122
    valoren
    Registered Users Posts: 5,458 ✭✭✭valoren


    A fool and his money is some party.


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    #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!!


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


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


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    #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!


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    #126
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


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


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    #127
    boardise
    Registered Users Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭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 !!


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    #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"..


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    #129
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


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


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    #130
    Bishop of hope
    Registered Users Posts: 2,927 ✭✭✭Bishop of hope


    They have champagne taste with a beer budget.


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    #131
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


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


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


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    #133
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Not my circus, not my monkeys.


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    #134
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,150 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?


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    #135
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,150 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..
    .


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    #136
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,150 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    There was always circuses... Always lol!


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    #137
    igCorcaigh
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    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.


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    #138
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭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 "


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    #139
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,301 ✭✭✭✭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)



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    #140
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    Locks are only for honest people


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    #141
    Graces7
    Registered Users 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 Posts: 601 ✭✭✭Snails pace


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


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    #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


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    #144
    Robert2012
    Registered Users Posts: 476 ✭✭Robert2012


    You can't polish a turd.


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    #145
    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭blackcard


    Mind the gap


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    #146
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Robert2012 wrote: »
    You can't polish a turd.
    but you can dip it in glitter


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    #147
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,843 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin

    Níl aon tóin tinn mar do thóin tinn féin.


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    #148
    amadangomor
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    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!


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    #149
    Graces7
    Registered Users 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!


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    #150
    Graces7
    Registered Users 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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