What sayings, old wives tales or legends do you put a lot of stock in?

uvox

"Go tell it to your 23 Twitter followers"

Spanish Eyes

One eyed Jack wrote: »

Well there's a mental image I could have done without... :pac:

oops. Hope you are alright!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_grandmother_to_suck_eggs

Colser

Apples dont fall far from the tree.

When someone would display similar traits to a parent my mother would say they 'didn't lick it off a stone'.

maudgonner

Candie wrote: »

When someone would display similar traits to a parent my mother would say they 'didn't lick it off a stone'.

It isn't from the wind he took it!

realdanbreen

When poverty comes in the door
love goes out the window

karma_

Disrespect authority, always.

maudgonner

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old ones know the corners.

What's for you won't go by you.

Don't believe that for a second.

Fox_In_Socks

There's a bucket for every arse.

Not that one

Mammy's baby
Daddy's maybe
regarding possible parentage of children.

Fox_In_Socks

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

There's a bucket for every arse.

Here's a Russian one;

'You can't fill a bucket with happiness if it has two holes'

Indian proverbs:

'When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him'

'Clouds that thunder seldom rain'

'There is no dignity in thinking yourself superior to another, only in being superior to your previous self'

trashcan

The problem with the world is that the stupid people are full of certainty, while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Never put off until tomorrow.....what you can put off until next week.

worded

Always keep a toilet roll in the freezer before eating a hot curry

padd b1975

Wherever you be, let the wind go free.

storker

poa wrote: »

Whenever I pulled a girl in a club that wasn't the best looking, and my mate would slag me; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

And also; you don't look at the mantlepiece when you're poking the fire.

"Go ugly early"

storker

Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »

Man that walk through airport sideways, going to Bangkok.

Man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day.

trashcan

trashcan wrote: »

The problem with the world is that the stupid people are full of certainty, while the intelligent are full of doubt.

There's nothing scarier than a person who assumes they know more than everyone else.

storker

"When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail."

"War is like the cinema. The best seats are at the back: the front is all flicker."

worded

Take half a Viagra and half a valium ...

If you don't get a fcuk you don't give a fcuk ..

Wanderer2010

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

Another one which has helped me a lot when dealing with people the last few years is:

Characterise people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words....

And kind of the opposite which has made me forgive easier.

"We judge others on their actions but ourselves on our intentions."

Crimson King

Never bring a fool to the pub, you'll find lots there instead.

Thespoofer

' The loudest cow gives the least milk '

Sam Kade

Bassfish wrote: »

My grandfather lived 1906 to 1987 and despised anyone who would strike a child for any reason, there are Dáil records of parliamentary questions he got North Kerry TDs to raise about outlawing corporal punishment in the 60s and 70s and he always used to say 'Mol na bpaisti agus tiocfaidh siad' - praise the children and they will come.
Definitely instilled me a belief in encouraging and supporting children to help them along and get the most out of them. I now work in youth advocacy and child protection so some of it definitely set in.

If he were around today he might change his mind.

Into The Blue

Candie wrote: »

My grans favourite bit of wisdom is remember that while it's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice.

Your granny was Scooter?? Cool..

Capt'n Midnight

“I never put off till to-morrow what I can possibly do . . . the day after.”

Mark Twain

Sam Kade

poa wrote: »

Well you do, as you keep stalking my posts and trolling them.
I am flattered, quite a fixation you have go going on there.

Why don't you two love birds kiss and make up.

diomed

if you want something done, ask a busy person.

Bonzo Delaney

When ever your moaning that your winnings / profits weren't what you hoped , the grand father would always say " sure isn't it better than a kick in the arse"

Driving in to work in town one Sunday morning stopped at the lights on the canal and a right looking princess all tarted up from the night before looking well chuffed with herself doing the walk of shame home and one of the lads in the van quips " jeasus look at yer one I'd say if you gave her a good kick about 10 mickeys would fall outta her"
In her defence I did comment that he was only jealous that his wasn't one of them ������

PMBC

Olishi4 wrote: »

My mam always used to tell me to sip some 7up when you are sick like as though it was some kind of medicine.

A few people have told me that their mother said the same thing.

Not from my mother but my wife -
flat 7 up or ditto coke good cure for tummy bug/:eek:''Montezuma's revenge/'the runs' aka 'the Colorado quickstep'

An old cure for 'the runs' was warm milk with a shake of pepper on top. It works. A friend while holidaying in Russia in the 80s developed chronic case of this disaster, specially when on holiday. The friendly hotel staff brought him to their medical centre on the top floor as a lot of the guests were suffering. They wanted to give him medication as an enema and when he insisted on the warm mil+pepper the Ruskies broke themselves laughing. But it worked for him then and a lot of th other guests. Hotel Ukrainia. Good morning Bernard.

PMBC

Form my mother, born in 1918 -
'Penny wise, pound foolish'

'Mind the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves'

From my father - never put on paper i.e in writing what you wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of the newspaper.

Form an Ethiopian in KSA years ago while trying to manage heavyweight Lebanese contractors, Syrians and other local Arabs

'When the elephants dance, the grass gets trampled'

PMBC

Olishi4 wrote: »

My mam always used to tell me to sip some 7up when you are sick like as though it was some kind of medicine.

A few people have told me that their mother said the same thing.

[QUOTE=storker;99578380]"A dumb priest never got a parish."

"What's inside when sober comes out when drunk."

"Sport doesn't build character, it reveals it."

And finally...

"Don't judge someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. Then when you do judge them, you're a mile away and you've got their shoes."[/QUOTE]

I heard that as
'A quiet priest never gerts a parish' which maskes sense to me - that from a friend of my wifes.

From my late father-in-law, referring to (the problems for) priests -
'If its not Punch, its Judy'

Shint0

The most expensive is sometimes the cheapest. Pay peanuts get monkeys.

PMBC

Keane2baMused wrote: »

There's no arse fire like your own arse Fire...

Thoin is your arse :-)

Surely 'tinn' means sick.
I wont translate the original which I thought should have read
Nil aon tinntean mar do thinntean fein (excuse the spellings as my Irish and memory are rusty). There is no fireplace i.e. home like your own

Keane2baMused

PMBC wrote: »

Surely 'tinn' means sick.
I wont translate the original which I thought should have read
Nil aon tinntean mar do thinntean fein (excuse the spellings as my Irish and memory are rusty). There is no fireplace i.e. home like your own

Read back we've been over this!

Confused tine and tinn. Tinn does mean sick and also sore.

PMBC

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

I always quote Bob Dylan when the missus is giving me lip for coming home from work mucked up to the eyeballs " I may be dirty but my hands are clean"

A journalist friend of;) mine had a great one " never trust a lad who claimes to know something about everything ... He actually knows nothing about anything."

And then add the line, I think, that follows
'(anyway) you're the best thing that ,,, ever seen'

PMBC

maudgonner wrote: »

It isn't from the wind he took it!

The apple didn't fall far from the tree

thattequilagirl

Never trust anyone who charges by the hour.

Bonzo Delaney

thattequilagirl wrote: »

Never trust anyone who charges by the hour.

Bullschutter everyone charges by the hour, whatever you are charged for a service you can be sure it's broken down to how many hours it take to supply that service
Whether your paid by the week , forthright , month, year or contract it's all broken down to the hourly rate it's just how business works

thattequilagirl

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

Bullschutter everyone charges by the hour, whatever you are charged for a service you can be sure it's broken down to how many hours it take to supply that service
Whether your paid by the week , forthright , month, year or contract it's all broken down to the hourly rate it's just how business works

Think the saying applies to people who charge you directly by the hour (lawyers, prostitutes, therapists)

IvyTheTerrible

A German saying "You cannot reheat old soup", meaning that getting back with an ex is a bad idea.

Potential-Monke

"What's meant for you won't pass you by"

I really believe in that one, because it's my current reason for being single for so long, and I may be holding out hope that it does come through... I'm so lonely...

Colser

Potential-Monke wrote: »

"What's meant for you won't pass you by"

I really believe in that one, because it's my current reason for being single for so long, and I may be holding out hope that it does come through... I'm so lonely...

Good things come to those who wait..
Hope it happens for you.:)

deise toffee

An ounce of brains is worth a ton of muscle!

Self-praise is no praise.

mzungu

What comes by nature never comes by post.

bnt

Not opening an umbrella indoors: not for any superstitious reasons, just as a general health and safety thing. You could have someone's eye out with that thing ...

mfceiling

poa wrote: »

Good one.
It reminds me of another one; when someone is being pig ignorant,
one cannot educate pork.

To the person who barely can say hello to you after you've greeted them...

"Sure what can you expect from a pig only a grunt".

Capt'n Midnight

Colser wrote: »

Good things come to those who wait..
Hope it happens for you.:)

Rudy's on a train to nowhere, halfway down the line
...
Rudy thought that all good things comes to those that wait
But recently he could see that it may come too late.

luftmensch

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish, and feed yourself.

He's a grown man. Fishing's not that hard."