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Post by Netsuke on Jun 24, 2020 8:57:27 GMT 2
I like signs and sayings, be they pithy, humourous, wise, consoling, motivational or just plain silly.
There are times when the written word can help pull someone back from the brink of despair.
..There are times when somebody may have been unkind and wise words help you feel better.
..There are times when the written word can cause you to break out in spontaneous laughter.
So, I'm starting a thread and will (try) and post a TFTD (Thought For The Day) every day.
All Potters are welcome to post their thought of the day, and while not de rigueur, will be greatly appreciated.
The only rule is one thought per post only, and attributation if known. Thank-you.
So, that being said....
Man who spend time in cathouse, end up in doghouse ~ Confucius.
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Post by slowcoach on Jun 24, 2020 9:49:31 GMT 2
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. (Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Oscar Wilde)
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Post by OnlyMark on Jun 24, 2020 14:12:30 GMT 2
"Apparently, 1 in 5 people in the world are Chinese.
There are 5 people in my family, so one of them must be. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother Colin. Or my younger brother HoChaChu.
But I think it's Colin."
Tommy Cooper.
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Post by Voy on Jun 24, 2020 16:50:05 GMT 2
" Don;t look back - you're not going that way "
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 27, 2020 10:22:32 GMT 2
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
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Post by rikita on Jun 27, 2020 12:00:36 GMT 2
gras does not grow faster if you pull it
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Post by Voy on Jun 27, 2020 14:11:33 GMT 2
However, it often is greener on the other side of the fence
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Post by Baz Faz on Jun 28, 2020 18:27:47 GMT 2
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dorothy Parker
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Post by Netsuke on Jun 30, 2020 10:32:09 GMT 2
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough ~ Mae West.
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 3, 2020 1:15:39 GMT 2
Il faux cultiver notre jardin ~ French proverb oft quoted by our French teacher.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 3, 2020 18:52:13 GMT 2
Bette Davis: “Old age ain't no place for sissies.”
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 5, 2020 0:47:31 GMT 2
Semper ubi sub ubi.
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 6, 2020 3:50:43 GMT 2
No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 6, 2020 21:59:59 GMT 2
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
The Dead, Dubliners
Joyce
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 7, 2020 8:59:35 GMT 2
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far ~ Theodore Roosevelt.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 7, 2020 18:19:49 GMT 2
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far ~ Theodore Roosevelt. they're taking his statue down @ the museum of nathist Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind. King Lear |
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 11, 2020 3:44:02 GMT 2
Never have more children than you have car windows ~ Erma Bombeck.
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Post by Voy on Jul 11, 2020 14:48:52 GMT 2
It never rains but it pours.... says Tropical Storm Fay.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 11, 2020 22:54:27 GMT 2
fay was a bit rough
corto de luces = Mexican phrase for not the brightest
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 15, 2020 12:00:03 GMT 2
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting ~ Sun Tzu.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 15, 2020 17:47:56 GMT 2
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 19, 2020 6:15:00 GMT 2
Marriage is like a workshop. The husband works, the wife shops.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 19, 2020 10:51:27 GMT 2
Marriage is like a workshop. The husband works, the wife shops. This is going back some years when I lived in France. My (then) wife was devoutly Christian so anybody Christian was welcomed to a meal or to stay in the guest house or park their caravan for weeks. We had a Christian visitor from England to a meal, a woman I had never met before. It got to midnight and she showed no sign of leaving. I got up from the dinner table and announced I was going to bed as I had to work in the morning. This woman was not pleased and said, "Well, I'm working tomorrow too." She was on holiday from England so I asked: "What work are you going to do?" She was taken aback by this direct challenge. After some thought she said: "I am going shopping." |
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 19, 2020 12:35:52 GMT 2
Baz I am, for once, speechless.
Ego sum mutus.
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Post by Voy on Jul 19, 2020 16:01:04 GMT 2
make hay while the sun shines... just about time for the second cutting.(and get it in quickly - it's going to rain again !)
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Post by slowcoach on Jul 20, 2020 10:49:46 GMT 2
In real life, there is no algebra.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 22, 2020 6:40:11 GMT 2
if everyone likes you, you're not doing it right. bette davis
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 22, 2020 11:19:38 GMT 2
If you eat the pheasant, you also eat the egg ~ Korean proverb.
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Post by Netsuke on Jul 26, 2020 3:19:26 GMT 2
Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men ~ Lord Acton.
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Post by Baz Faz on Jul 27, 2020 11:25:12 GMT 2
There is no such thing as strong coffee. There are only weak people.
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