The Best Sayings Ever

Ana it means lots of small amounts make a large amount - a bit like 'look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves'.
How about 'his coat's hingin' on a shoogly peg*?

Organised people are just too lazy to look for things

Real women don't have hot flushes, they have power surges

Lazy people work hardest!

(So true - from your chair, try throwing something into a wastepaper basket, hit it and knock it over - contents all over the place . . . . . )

I've always rather liked "If you can't find something nice to say...........
Say something devastating"

Soutra

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, my Grandma said that a lot.

Your Grandma was dead right number!

But she'd never have got a mortgage!

We seem to have plethora of threads on sayings- old ones, favourite ones, daft ones, funny ones, out of date ones, wise ones ,sayings we heard from our mums or grannies do we actually need another?

My Grandad used to say that numberplease

@numberplease - your Grandma was quoting Shakespeare - Hamlet. The speech comes where Polonius is seeing his son Laertes off on a trip to England. Act 1 Scene 3:

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Hamlet, Act III, Polonius to his son Laertes,

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine ownself be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!"

SNAP!

Crossed posts, Feetle - great minds think alike!!!

So glad that we seem to have gone with sayings, rather than quotes, much less room for misunderstanding, don't you think?

Well, I'm planning to tootle off to bed fairly soon, as I start my new job tomorrow!

Loads of thanks to all who have wished me well, your support has been very much valued over my job hunting time, especially as apparently according to one member who sent me a less than delightful PM, I have posted daily about it and been very boring!

When is a saying not a quote?
Enjoyed a bit of a "Shakespeare year" in 2013 - Hamlet, As You Like it, Much Ado, all the Henrys, Richard II and III, Winter's Tale to name just the ones I remember (!) and it seemed as if every other line was a well-known quote/saying!!

Yes - not much difference as far as I can see!

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after.

If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing badly.

If you haven't got any nice to say. Don't say any thing!