What are some of your favorite sayings?

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"Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others."
- Arnold Bennett

I'm not patient enough to read all 17 pages. Sorry if this is a repeat.

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission.

If it's NOT a repeat it should be, since so many of us live by that simple truth of life.

"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment."

T. H. White

I like some of the Aussie bush sayings like:
Dry as a dead dingo's donga!
Or she/he has a mouth like a dunny (outhouse) door in a storm.

Paul

"If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job."
- Woody Allen

"People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk."

Stephen King

"I've never cared for this word," I said as I wrote the word "penis" on the blackboard. "Did I spell that right? It just sounds so clinical, like it's in a jar on a shelf somewhere."
-MrMark, imagining teaching sex education as stand-up comedy

(How come on TV we can call it a Johnson but we can't call it a Dick? Maybe that question belongs in another forum.)

indeed
ciaosers like trousers
google is the umbilical cord of the internet

I've also made up some words, usually when trying to find the right word, but the ones I make up usually succeed in being ridicuolous but sounding very intelligent, or maybe just I think so.....


like angrus,,,and some others.....

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
- Mahatma Gandhi

I like this one too

"he who throws mud is losing ground"

"The truth is more important than the facts."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away."
- Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good."
- Peter Cooper

A new one I've just come across.

On saying grace:

"Dear God. We paid for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing." - Bart Simpson.

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."
- Thomas Paine