Remember the "Old Saying" thread

The empty barrel makes the most noise

Technology changes; people don't. (That's one I made up)
 
"If at first you don't succeed, fail fail again. " Waldorf and Statler
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"If at first you don't succeed, fail fail again. " Waldorf and Statler
W.C. Fields: "If at first you don't succeed, give up. No reason to make a d**n fool of yourself"...

Groucho: "I'm not half the man I used to be, in fact, I never was".

Finally, "If 'if's and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas".
 
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Describing a really obese person…
“If they told him to haul ass it would take two wheel barrows.”

Describing a dumb person…
“He’s several bricks short of a load”

How to tell when a Lawyer is lying? His lips are moving.

We used to call STP oil treatment “a can of puff-no-more”.
 
Busy quotes

Flat out like a lizard drinking water
Busier than a one-eyed dog in a smokehouse
Busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest
Busier than a one armed Bayman (Newfy) with a wood stove
 
I’m as fine as frog’s hair.

Never understood this one…”Killed him graveyard dead”. Dead is dead, right?

“Sober as a Judge”.
 
Not necessarily an old saying but a wise story here:

When I was a boxer in the 1970's, I was hit in the face by Joe Frazier, knocked out by Muhammad Ali, and knocked down a couple of times by Ron Lyle before I got up and won. All of the fights had one thing in common: When they were over, I could hardly remember the pain. I forgot my weak knees, the cuts, the blood in my eyes. If not for the films of my fights, I would have put them totally out of my mind. It's the same when you hit rough times: Don't let the pain and disappointment lodge inside.'
- George Foreman
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... Flat out like a lizard drinking water
Busier than a one-eyed dog in a smokehouse
Busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest
Busier than a one armed Bayman (Newfy) with a wood stove
I've never heard any of those, but instead "Busier than a one-armed wallpaper hanger."
 
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My dad said this one last night during Christmas dinner: "I respect the dog, for the owner" meaning, that sometimes it is necessary to put up with one person out of respect for another.



 
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