What’s your favourite quote/saying ?

[GreenCrocodile]

Mine fav of all time is

time you enjoy wasting, isn’t time wasted

When you’re wading through shit- step out of the sewer. (not always possible, of course, but got me on the road to being happily divorced).

When someone tells you who they are, believe them. (As much friends as lovers for me.)

Mark Twain: Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Yes this was my mantra when having chemotherapy.

Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.

Billy Connolly

The best revenge is not to be like that.
(Marcus Aurelius)

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Il dolce far niente.

The sweetness of doing nothing.

"Just because people sell rubbish doesn't mean you have to buy it."
Overheard dad talking to his kid whilst walking through a resort, stuck with me.

You are the company you keep.

And from a book, Anno Dracula by Kim Newman, "Good things come to an end. Bad things have to be stopped."

Mine is,
"You buy one, you get one free."

Oh no, sorry, that's my most irritating TV advertisement quote.

Well, one if them...

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way

If you don’t go first class, your children will!

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

Don't set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it!

I think it's

Better to keep you mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

But yes, good quote!

Another fav of mine, straight roads don't make for skillful drivers

‘Be excellent to each other’ - Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

And from my Lancashire childhood: ‘See all, hear all, say nowt’.

The latter has been a very useful tool for gobby old me.

"What if I fall? ... oh but my dear, what if you fly!"

You have 2 ears and 1mouth… so you can listen twice as much as you speak

those who matter won’t mind and those that mind don’t matter

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Things will be okay in the end, if they're not OK, it's not the end.

I love many of these and enjoyed new ones. Mine is..

'Worse things happen at sea'

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
(Samuel Beckett)

F off is my favourite 😂