Folklore: modern proverb

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Mr Red
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 04:50 AM

Is making up stuff just for the sake of posting "folklore?"

It will be one day. Is what common folk did in years gone by Folklore? Or History? The answer is yes and yes.
And with the ubiquity of the internet, it probably is already.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: GUEST,John from Kemsing
Date: 21 Oct 20 - 06:20 AM

My mother, having bought some wooden clothes pegs from a woman at the door step was thanked with, " Bless you dear. May you never have more than you want and may you never have less than you need!"

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Joe_F
Date: 22 Oct 20 - 05:58 PM

If you have friends in any large organization, you also have enemies there.

Two stupidities: "If it isn't a fight, I can't win." "It's never a fight, so we can't lose."

In the end, deceivers deceive themselves.

Beware of geeks baring gifs.

Some things are true even though some people say them.

Stifle a bad impulse, and you have some consolation. Stifle a good impulse, and you are in a bad way.

Don't worry. It won't last. Nothing does.

Don't be childish. The children might hear you.

Public opinion might be worthy of attention if you were the only one paying attention to it.

It is the fate of fools to amuse their enemies and bore their friends.

What sinners remember best is that they were happy while sinning.

You're never too old to do something stupid.

Every moment of happiness is a timeless victory over Satan that can never be annulled.

One doesn't fly the enemy's flag, but there is no need to call it a bad flag.

Cheap repairs for the cheap ones.

Easy writing, hard reading.

Of the components of love, jealousy has the longest decay time.

If you can't get the blues off your mind, get your mind off the blues.

Politicians need to have an indecent respect for the opinion of mankind.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Lost Chicken in High Weeds
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 08:44 PM

"never stick your ____ in crazy"

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Jos
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 08:11 AM

From the same list:

"What sinners remember best is that they were happy while sinning."

"Every moment of happiness is a timeless victory over Satan that can never be annulled."

So ... you can defeat Satan by sinning ...

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Gda Music
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 03:22 PM

The Russians fight with Timoshenko
The British with a tin of Blanco
Bullshit baffles brains!

GJ

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 04:19 PM

When I was leaving for the States to go to college, paternal advice included If you don't know whom to vote for, vote the straight democratic ticket. I did not know what either democratic or ticket meant...

And it was Hatched. Don't count your boobies until they are Hatched. Sorry.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Joe_F
Date: 26 Oct 20 - 09:49 PM

If you handle other people's money, you need to pay yourself well to protect yourself from the temptation to steal.

Life doesn't come with a meaning. That's a user modification and voids the warranty.

You can't fake out a train.

WYSIWYG, but NWYW.

As a cure for stupidity, rudeness is no substitute for assault and battery.

A little good luck, a little bad luck, and you lose your underwear.

Live each day as if it were your last. Someday you'll be right.

The secret to originality is knowing how to hide your sources.

The most respectful thing you can do to a bully is hit back.

The right to hurt people's feelings is the only right worth having.

Know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Sincerity is so cheap, it's a wonder anyone bothers to be a hypocrite.

If you did not wish to be ridden, why did you become an ass?

Women expect men to change when they marry, and men expect women to stay the same; but they never do.

Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world is not.

A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

Always some flakes rise,
But it is correct to say
The snow is falling.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Relax! It's already hopeless.

Repulsive up close, less so at a distance. Attractive at a distance, less so up close.

Make sure in advance that when the forces of evil triumph, you will be on the losing side.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: GUEST,paperback
Date: 27 Oct 20 - 04:31 PM

Can't shit a bullshitter and hand me a shovel it's getting pretty deep in here

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: BobL
Date: 28 Oct 20 - 05:12 AM

One last trawl through my file of sayings that should be on badges, T-shirts or bumper stickers...

A man who admits he is wrong when he is wrong, is wise. A man who admits he is wrong when he is right, is married.
Always predict the worst and you'll be hailed as a prophet -- Tom Lehrer.
Anything asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence (Hitchens' Razor).
Better to look a fool with an umbrella on a dry day than a fool without an umbrella on a wet day.
Don't worry, it only seems kinky the first time.
EVERYTHING is ALWAYS in the last place you look for it.
How come to falsify a document is to doctor it, but to verify it is to vet it?
If you have to eat two frogs, eat the uglier one first.
If you torture the data sufficiently, it will confess to anything.
If your mistakes are big enough, the pain only lasts a second -- Demotivators Inc.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
More people have won a Darwin Award than a Nobel Prize.
Nothing brings tears to the eyes of a native speaker so much as a Yorkshireman trying to speak Welsh.
On some days you're the pigeon, on others you're the statue.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one -- Albert Einstein.
Reality may be an illusion, but it's the only place where you can get a decent cup of coffee -- Tom Gauld.
Sometimes a cigar is simply a cigar -- Sigmund Freud.
The paperless office is like the paperless toilet: achievable but not desirable.
The skin is mightier than the banana.
There is NO substitute for cheating.
Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first grind exceeding small -- Frank Johnson.
To find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Where there's smoke, there's an engineer in trouble.
You never understand any task really thoroughly until you try to teach someone else to do it.
Youth and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

Apologies if I've repeated anything earlier in the thread.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 28 Oct 20 - 08:14 AM

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Oct 20 - 09:16 PM

A $150 bill is just as queer as a $3 bill.

Conversation should have a distinctive lack of purpose.

Inner conflict is the best kind.

"I have to draw a line somewhere" is rhetorically weak, but morally it tells the truth.

No-one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Malice is punished by neglect.

Why tell lies, when the truth is so much more offensive?

Nonloving kindness is the more admirable kind.

Deliver me from every pride -- the Middle, High, and Low --
That bars me from a brother's side, whatever pride he show.

If you can't say anything good, make up something bad.

The wise man gratifies every appetite and ever passion; the fool sacrifices all the rest to pall and satiate one.

Make the program complicated enough to feel pain; then punish it until it does what you want it to.

Occasions for being in touch with your emotions are about as common as occasions for being in touch with your intestines.

Wire your fetishisms in parallel.

Two stupidities: "If it's worth doing, you can get a grant for it." "If it's worth doing, there's a market for it."

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

Don't hate yourself in the morning. Sleep till noon.

If you pray to God to smite your enemies, Satan is your god.

Good scientists try to prove their favorite theories are wrong.

If "multiculturalism" means "freedom of association", it is superfluous; if any more or less, it is pernicious.

Beware of anything that answers everything.

Don't waste time killing the snake.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: leeneia
Date: 29 Oct 20 - 04:06 PM

He[a rich person] was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.

From a column by Leonard Pitts, a black columnist in Miami. Pitts says it is a common saying.

A triple is a good hit in baseball which lets the batter get to three of the four bases.

Subject: RE: Folklore: modern proverb
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Oct 20 - 05:16 PM

These are great but, um, should this thread not be below the line?