Great quotes/sayings
Discussion
A collection of my favourite, I note them down on my phone every time I hear something I like.
It’s not the big that eats the small but the fast that eats the slow
If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting for the rest of you life. - Lemony Snicket
Faster alone, further together - African proverb
The things you don’t do are the things you don’t learn
Arkell v Pressdram legal slang for “f*** off” Private Eye
Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am - Rene Descartes
Are you having a bad day? Or are you letting a bad five minutes ruin your whole day? anon
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending - C.S. Lewis
The fool who persists in his hobby will become wise - William Blake
Mea culpa through my fault (Latin)
Dieu et mon droit motto of the monarch of the UK “God and my right”
Honi soit qui mal y pense French maxim used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter “May he be shamed who thinks badly of it”
Prima Facie at first impression
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffett
Thinking is the hardest work, that’s probably why so few engage in it - Henry Ford
One of humanity’s great failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective - Stephen Fry
A thief’s hell is the fear of thieves Elias Canetti we project our qualities onto others and it fills us with anxiety that they may be like that
Comparison is the thief of joy - Theodore Roosevelt
True listening requires a setting aside of one’s self. Sensing this acceptance the speaker will become less and less vulnerable and more likely to open up the inner recesses of their mind to the listener. - M. Scott Peck
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind. - Marcel Proust
In flagrante delicto - ‘In blazing offence’ being caught in the act/red handed.
Aesop's Fable - the story of the wind and the sun. If you want a man to take off his coat you don't blow it off, you make him feel warm and he'll take it off on his own.
A great man once said that everything is about sex, apart from sex, which is about power
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing"
- Aristotle
"A man who leads the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd"
- Max Lucado
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it"
- Aristotle
In vino veritas
in wine truth
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all, doing nothing. - Benjamin Franklin
Virtus non stemma - virtue not pedigree
The fear of death is from the fear of life. Any man that has lived fully does not fear death - Mark Twain
Great minds think alike fools never differ
There's a quote from François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld that goes "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
“All warfare is deception, and in the middle of chaos there’s opportunity” Sun Tzu
‘Discretion is the better part of valour’ - it's better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
“Class is to never offend someone accidentally” - Etta Donald
It’s not the big that eats the small but the fast that eats the slow
If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting for the rest of you life. - Lemony Snicket
Faster alone, further together - African proverb
The things you don’t do are the things you don’t learn
Arkell v Pressdram legal slang for “f*** off” Private Eye
Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am - Rene Descartes
Are you having a bad day? Or are you letting a bad five minutes ruin your whole day? anon
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending - C.S. Lewis
The fool who persists in his hobby will become wise - William Blake
Mea culpa through my fault (Latin)
Dieu et mon droit motto of the monarch of the UK “God and my right”
Honi soit qui mal y pense French maxim used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter “May he be shamed who thinks badly of it”
Prima Facie at first impression
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffett
Thinking is the hardest work, that’s probably why so few engage in it - Henry Ford
One of humanity’s great failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective - Stephen Fry
A thief’s hell is the fear of thieves Elias Canetti we project our qualities onto others and it fills us with anxiety that they may be like that
Comparison is the thief of joy - Theodore Roosevelt
True listening requires a setting aside of one’s self. Sensing this acceptance the speaker will become less and less vulnerable and more likely to open up the inner recesses of their mind to the listener. - M. Scott Peck
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind. - Marcel Proust
In flagrante delicto - ‘In blazing offence’ being caught in the act/red handed.
Aesop's Fable - the story of the wind and the sun. If you want a man to take off his coat you don't blow it off, you make him feel warm and he'll take it off on his own.
A great man once said that everything is about sex, apart from sex, which is about power
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing"
- Aristotle
"A man who leads the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd"
- Max Lucado
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it"
- Aristotle
In vino veritas
in wine truth
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all, doing nothing. - Benjamin Franklin
Virtus non stemma - virtue not pedigree
The fear of death is from the fear of life. Any man that has lived fully does not fear death - Mark Twain
Great minds think alike fools never differ
There's a quote from François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld that goes "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
“All warfare is deception, and in the middle of chaos there’s opportunity” Sun Tzu
‘Discretion is the better part of valour’ - it's better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
“Class is to never offend someone accidentally” - Etta Donald
Over over under steer said:
A collection of my favourite, I note them down on my phone every time I hear something I like.
It’s not the big that eats the small but the fast that eats the slow
If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting for the rest of you life. - Lemony Snicket
Faster alone, further together - African proverb
The things you don’t do are the things you don’t learn
Arkell v Pressdram legal slang for “f*** off” Private Eye
Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am - Rene Descartes
Are you having a bad day? Or are you letting a bad five minutes ruin your whole day? anon
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending - C.S. Lewis
The fool who persists in his hobby will become wise - William Blake
Mea culpa through my fault (Latin)
Dieu et mon droit motto of the monarch of the UK “God and my right”
Honi soit qui mal y pense French maxim used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter “May he be shamed who thinks badly of it”
Prima Facie at first impression
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffett
Thinking is the hardest work, that’s probably why so few engage in it - Henry Ford
One of humanity’s great failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective - Stephen Fry
A thief’s hell is the fear of thieves Elias Canetti we project our qualities onto others and it fills us with anxiety that they may be like that
Comparison is the thief of joy - Theodore Roosevelt
True listening requires a setting aside of one’s self. Sensing this acceptance the speaker will become less and less vulnerable and more likely to open up the inner recesses of their mind to the listener. - M. Scott Peck
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind. - Marcel Proust
In flagrante delicto - ‘In blazing offence’ being caught in the act/red handed.
Aesop's Fable - the story of the wind and the sun. If you want a man to take off his coat you don't blow it off, you make him feel warm and he'll take it off on his own.
A great man once said that everything is about sex, apart from sex, which is about power
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing"
- Aristotle
"A man who leads the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd"
- Max Lucado
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it"
- Aristotle
In vino veritas
in wine truth
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all, doing nothing. - Benjamin Franklin
Virtus non stemma - virtue not pedigree
The fear of death is from the fear of life. Any man that has lived fully does not fear death - Mark Twain
Great minds think alike fools never differ
There's a quote from François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld that goes "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
“All warfare is deception, and in the middle of chaos there’s opportunity” Sun Tzu
‘Discretion is the better part of valour’ - it's better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
“Class is to never offend someone accidentally” - Etta Donald
It’s not the big that eats the small but the fast that eats the slow
If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting for the rest of you life. - Lemony Snicket
Faster alone, further together - African proverb
The things you don’t do are the things you don’t learn
Arkell v Pressdram legal slang for “f*** off” Private Eye
Cogito ergo sum I think therefore I am - Rene Descartes
Are you having a bad day? Or are you letting a bad five minutes ruin your whole day? anon
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending - C.S. Lewis
The fool who persists in his hobby will become wise - William Blake
Mea culpa through my fault (Latin)
Dieu et mon droit motto of the monarch of the UK “God and my right”
Honi soit qui mal y pense French maxim used as the motto of the British chivalric Order of the Garter “May he be shamed who thinks badly of it”
Prima Facie at first impression
The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffett
Thinking is the hardest work, that’s probably why so few engage in it - Henry Ford
One of humanity’s great failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective - Stephen Fry
A thief’s hell is the fear of thieves Elias Canetti we project our qualities onto others and it fills us with anxiety that they may be like that
Comparison is the thief of joy - Theodore Roosevelt
True listening requires a setting aside of one’s self. Sensing this acceptance the speaker will become less and less vulnerable and more likely to open up the inner recesses of their mind to the listener. - M. Scott Peck
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the power of the mind. - Marcel Proust
In flagrante delicto - ‘In blazing offence’ being caught in the act/red handed.
Aesop's Fable - the story of the wind and the sun. If you want a man to take off his coat you don't blow it off, you make him feel warm and he'll take it off on his own.
A great man once said that everything is about sex, apart from sex, which is about power
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing and be nothing"
- Aristotle
"A man who leads the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd"
- Max Lucado
"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it"
- Aristotle
In vino veritas
in wine truth
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all, doing nothing. - Benjamin Franklin
Virtus non stemma - virtue not pedigree
The fear of death is from the fear of life. Any man that has lived fully does not fear death - Mark Twain
Great minds think alike fools never differ
There's a quote from François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld that goes "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire."
“All warfare is deception, and in the middle of chaos there’s opportunity” Sun Tzu
‘Discretion is the better part of valour’ - it's better to avoid a dangerous situation than to confront it.
“Class is to never offend someone accidentally” - Etta Donald
Brent. 
t, but it's your piece of sBefore you criticise, walk a mile in their shoes.. That way, when you do criticise, you'll be a mile away. And have his shoes.
More seriously, and one that often evades me - If you can't say something nice, better to say nothing at all.
Least said soonest mended.
Good one for a car related forum - A stitch in time saves 9. (Or oil changes are cheaper than turbos).
It's not the size of the dog in the fight - but the size of the fight in the dog.
If I wasn't doing this, I'd only be doing something else - I translate this as being in the here and now.
A good plan now is (usually) better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
A old japanese manager of mine used to say - 'Have you tried' Meaning, stop bellyaching and go and do something about it, and when you've failed several times, and have no more ideas, then come and talk about it.
More seriously, and one that often evades me - If you can't say something nice, better to say nothing at all.
Least said soonest mended.
Good one for a car related forum - A stitch in time saves 9. (Or oil changes are cheaper than turbos).
It's not the size of the dog in the fight - but the size of the fight in the dog.
If I wasn't doing this, I'd only be doing something else - I translate this as being in the here and now.
A good plan now is (usually) better than a perfect plan tomorrow.
A old japanese manager of mine used to say - 'Have you tried' Meaning, stop bellyaching and go and do something about it, and when you've failed several times, and have no more ideas, then come and talk about it.
Doubtless I have the wording partially incorrect, but general gist:
Why Winston, you're drunk?! Yes my dear, and you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning.
Also a response from Goldeneye that I have always thought would be a fairly brutal thing to deploy in a restaurant environment when the waiter asks:
"Is everything alright with your meal sir?"
"Everything except the interruption"
Why Winston, you're drunk?! Yes my dear, and you are ugly, but I shall be sober in the morning.
Also a response from Goldeneye that I have always thought would be a fairly brutal thing to deploy in a restaurant environment when the waiter asks:
"Is everything alright with your meal sir?"
"Everything except the interruption"
Edited by SturdyHSV on Friday 31st July 16:41
bearman68 said:
A old japanese manager of mine used to say - 'Have you tried' Meaning, stop bellyaching and go and do something about it, and when you've failed several times, and have no more ideas, then come and talk about it.
I like that. Different isn't wrong.
No decision is a bad decision.
Complexity is failed simplicity.
Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.
Show me a man who has never made a mistake and I'll show you a man that has never done anything.
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