Phrases to Live by

[Muddyboots]

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!

 

[P7M13]

This guy was complaining about his wife and I mean running her down. This older and wise gentleman walks by without missing a beat and says "you picked her what does that say about you"

It got real quiet after that

A few years post divorce, my GF at the time comments to me, "you don't have a very good picker." Without missing a beat, I retorted, "that doesn't bode well for you, does it?" She ascribed to the self-indulgent (possibly narcissist) theory, "I'm OK, you're not."

I assure you that DEFINITELY WAS NOT MINE. Respectfully, I think we should just move on and continue with the OP's subject matter.

These days, it's hard to say much about current events without someone calling you racist / bigoted / sexist / classist, etc.

"Best to keep ones mouth shut then to open it and remove all doubt" Thomas Jefferson

The specific wording of that quote is most commonly credited to Mark Twain, though it is a witty paraphrase of one that has been around at least two millennia before he was born.
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.
Proverbs 17:28, KJV

 

[Chuckrub]

A lie travels around the world while the truth is still asleep.

 

[Quintus]

This one goes along with 'don't s$!T where you eat"

'Don't dip your dink in the company ink'

 

[Muddyboots]

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

The Crown of a Life(1869) by Isa Blagden.

Similar statements are attributed to many others but I think it originated here from what I found many years ago. This also basis for propaganda "illusion of truth" that is widely in use today on all forms of media to "sway" people without basis of fact.

Gee, sound familiar?

 

[jessej]

Being a male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of choice.

 

[waveslayer]

Never trust a skinny cook

 

[patross79]

One that is well known by my kids because I say it constantly.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

 

[wasskeet]

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

C.S. Lewis

 

[jessej]

 

[jessej]

People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf

 

[Chuckrub]

What have you done to better the future of everything you love!

 

[Bret GRAVELINE Graveline]

( for the business owner )
All customers make me happy, some when they walk in, others when they leave.

 

[436]

Failure to plan on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.