Favourite sayings

Unknown origin, but one of my much-loved, late Grandma's sayings, which I've never forgotten. "If the Devil always looked like the Devil, there'd be no such thing as temptation. "

'I have got all the ills that nobody dies of'. One of my grandmother's faourite sayings.

It is what it is,deal with it if or when it happens.

‘Everything passes’

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on".
Attributed to F D Roosevelt.

Happy Easter Juno56.
I like that saying. I think it's what a lot of people do.

My favourite is by Dorothy Parker and I use it quite often to turn down an alcoholic drink which I don't want, without offending the person who's offering the drink:

"I'm really not much of a drinker
Just one or two at the most.
Three, I'm under the table
Four, I'm under the host"

Always raises a laugh.

‘Work is the curse of the drinking classes.’ (Oscar Wilde, IIRC.)

"I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." Oscar Wilde.

Juno56 The Duke of Wellington had a similar saying 'I made my campaigns using rope, and if a piece broke I tied a knot.'

(compared with Napoleon who 'built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed.'

God helps those who help themselves

We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns.

and

If not me, who? If not now, when?

I have the simplest taste - I like nothing but the best (Oscar Wilde)

'The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.'

My Dad: "You're no sae green as you're cabbage looking."
Granny: "Worse things happen at sea."

It is on the debris of our despair that we build our character. ? Emerson

We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns.. That was one of my Grandad's sayings too.

My other Grandad always wrote Lang may yer lum reek in our birthday cards.

I'd rather wear out, than rust out - my mum

The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.
Sherrilyn Kenyon

“A little tact consists in knowing how far to go too far” Jean Cocteau

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” De Balzac

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

This too, shall pass.

Don’t let what was or could have been spoil what is or might be.

My Irish stepfather (instead of “cheers”) - may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.

My grandfather “Let the dog see the rabbit” translated as out of the way so I can see what I’m doing

I can do something no one else can do, read my handwriting.