To ask for your favourite sayings/phrases?

[SailAwaySandra]

Mine are

I’d rather be late in this life than early in the next

And

If you want something done properly, do it yourself (bloody annoying but always true)

I like "awa an bile yer heid"
Although I don't think I've ever said it out loud!

If you don’t ask, you don’t get.
Said to a very shy teenage me by my lovely Head of Year. I’ve often thought of it when I’m nervous about asking for something.

Thick as pork chop mustard (unintelligent).
Just the Bobby’s knob (very good or useful).

All fur no knickers!

There's no I in team, but U in cunt

This is quite a common phrase in our families.

Shy bairns get nowt ie you need to speak up if you want something,

and very contradictory to the above statement

I want never gets ie if you ask for anything you won't get it

‘And if your aunty had bollocks she’d be your uncle’

Used to highlight the pointlessness of ‘if/if only’ type pontificating

I don’t understand this one! What does it mean?

'Only dead fish flow with the stream'

'Only a fool tests the depth of a river by jumping in with both feet'

'I only seek shade under a tree which will bear fruit'

And some Latin ones:

'Et festina lente' - make haste slowly

'Facta non verba' - deeds not words

'Non urinat ventum' - do not piss into the wind

'Signa et terminos' - standards and boundaries

And, finally:

'Hope and happiness will, like a Phoenix, from the ashes arise'

In and out like a dog at a fair
Short & sweet like a donkeys gallop

'They walk around like their 💩 doesn't stink'

As cunning as a shit house rat.
My usually civilised grandma would say it

"You can't have a Rolls Royce on a push bike budget."

This was my a father's version, I've updated it to "you can't have champagne on a prosecco budget"

ie you can only have what you can afford

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

there more than one way to cook an egg

I remember being shocked but laughing so much as a teenager when my mum came out with this.

One I like, particularly at work, is "Your lack of planning is not my emergency".

Oh just remembered one of my nan's that used to tickle me, about a nosy person,usually the woman next door that she had a long running feud with - 'She wants to know the ins and outs of a magpie's arse, and the road up it'

It’ll all come out in the wash
Silly as arseholes

My mother used to say.....'she could eat a tomato through a tennis racquet'

When talking about someone who had prominent teeth.

you may have to physically try to do this with am imaginary tennis racquet to see where she was coming from lol

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

It is that

Are you the sayings police?
Is this a branch of the SPaG police?

Surely that's all fur coat and no knickers?

Tomorrow's problem,

If in doubt - don't do it.

It is what it is.

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

The lights are on but no one's in.

Oh - just seen another post with one I like but I say it a bit differently:

All skirt and no knickers.