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What’s your favourite quote/saying ?

105 replies

GreenCrocodile · 02/02/2025 21:19

Mine fav of all time is

time you enjoy wasting, isn’t time wasted

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Lanneederniere · 02/02/2025 21:41

I love the fact that Jean-Paul Sartre said: 'L'enfer, c'est les autres' in 1944.

Hell is indeed other people, as far as I'm concerned.

candlesgalore · 02/02/2025 21:42

It will pass.

Feelingblue2219 · 02/02/2025 21:42

We are all in the gutter some of us are looking at the stars

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user1471453601 · 02/02/2025 21:48

This too shall pass.

It isn't always about bad times passing, but also about the good times.

I try (though often fail) to remember this every time I look at the state of the world and, sometimes, despair.

ThatFishingTrip · 02/02/2025 21:50

Some days you're the pigeon, some days you're the statue - accept both with dignity

Ridelikethewindypops · 02/02/2025 21:52

Be your own Hero. 😊

LetMeStopWhatImDoingToFixTheProblemYouMade · 02/02/2025 21:52

I pretty much live my life by your quote. It's a great one.

Mine... "if the wind fails to serve, take the oars." I very much take life as it comes but there are times where I need to put myself in gear and get things moving.

A ship is safe in harbour but that's not what ships were built for. Basic but motivating.

lookinggforadvice · 02/02/2025 21:52

No good deed goes unpunished.Grin

I seen to say this way too often lol

Wemaybebetterstrangers · 02/02/2025 21:53

You don’t have to be a night owl or an early bird, it’s fine to be a permanently exhausted pigeon.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 02/02/2025 21:54

^ '^You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending

CS Lewis

AnaMond · 02/02/2025 21:56

Working as a headteacher ( or in any job with the public) …

‘You can't please everyone all of the time’

( but if I could please some people for some of the time, then my professional decisions were ok!).

It really made me consider the evidence behind decision making, so that I could defend the decisions made, based on my professional expertise.

justasking111 · 02/02/2025 21:57

God laughs at plans

shellyleppard · 02/02/2025 22:01

What goes around, comes around and..... karma always kicks arse

Awrite · 02/02/2025 22:03

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, first they make mad.

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

LordBummenbachsMagnificentBalls · 02/02/2025 22:05

Nothing changes if nothing changes

Motharunner · 02/02/2025 22:05

Like others I love the ships are safe in the harbour but that’s not what they’re for! Really resonates.

I like… don’t take criticism from someone you wouldn’t seek out for advice and...

Eat the toad for breakfast! (Something crap to do that day, make it the first thing you do and get it out of the way).

TheStigarette · 02/02/2025 22:08

It's a bit cheesy but i do like 'love many, trust a few and always paddle your own canoe'

Oh and the Serenity prayer

EveryKneeShallBow · 02/02/2025 22:09

If you sit long enough beside the river, eventually the bodies of your enemies float past.

If you’re the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.

partystress · 02/02/2025 22:09

When you are used to privilege, equality looks like oppression

AcquadiP · 02/02/2025 22:10

"When someone shows you who they truly are, believe them. The first time."

Arewethebadguys · 02/02/2025 22:13

Just because you make me come doesn't make you Jesus

Tori Amos ❤️

TheFunSponge · 02/02/2025 22:16

Comparison is the thief of joy!

HappiestSleeping · 02/02/2025 22:21

I always get to where I'm going by walking away from where I have been - Winnie the Pooh

Deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by - Douglas Adams

LoudPlumDog · 02/02/2025 22:22

You get what you get and you don’t get upset.

HansHolbein · 02/02/2025 22:24

Tomorrow starts today.

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