<p>Here are some well- known phrases : Don’t call us, we’ll call you ,the check is in the mail ,this won’t hurt a bit ,what can you think of ?</p>
<p>What goes around comes around. God doesn’t sleep.</p>
<p>Or , my favorite !! DON"T GET MAD , GET EVEN !!</p>
<p>I have a book of famous quotes. It’s a really good read. I should leave it on the coffee table for those times people are sitting on the sofa bemoaning the lack of good TV programming.</p>
<p>I’ve heard this on CC. Man plans and god laughs.</p>
<p>Good advice for all who want to make sure their kids don’t spend a moment of their lives struggling:</p>
<p>“If you’re not uncomfortable, you’re not growing.”</p>
<p>Good advice for anyone, for that matter. I used that one for inspiration recently when I made a career change which was rather fear inducing.</p>
<p>Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Fly by the seat of your pants
Drop in the bucket
Cut off your nose to spite your face
Between a rock and a hard place
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Dot your I’s and cross your T’s
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
Can’t hit the broad side of a barn
No skin off my nose (ouch)
Hit the nail on the head</p>
<p>That’s all I can think of right now…</p>
<p>Cherchez la femme…since I am reading a book about France</p>
<p>Voulez vous couchez avec ma ce soir… since I just saw Woody Allen’s movie about Paris</p>
<p>You can’t get blood out of a stone…since child just get a weak financial aid award</p>
<p>Anything Yogi Berra said. Especially:</p>
<p>“Nobody goes there any more- it is too crowded”.</p>
<p>Out of challenges come opportunities.</p>
<p>When you assume, my make an “ass” out of you & me.</p>
<p>You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.</p>
<p>Whatever [challenge] doesn’t kill you can make you stronger.</p>
<p>Words can be swords.</p>
<p>To have a friend, be a friend.</p>
<p>When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.</p>
<p>You’re going to have stars on your crown in Heaven.</p>
<p>Anything my grandmother used to say. She had a million of them, and for the life of me, I can’t think of any of them right now!</p>
<p>on CC - love the kid on the couch</p>
<p>when a door closes, a window opens (so you can jump out!)
happy as a clam at high tide</p>
<p>I’ve always liked ones like these:
not the
sharpest knife in the drawer
brightest bulb in the chandelier (on the tree)
sharpest pencil in the box</p>
<p>“Light” in the upper works.
Not the sharpest tack in the box.</p>
<p>My favorite quote is from Mohandas Gandhi.
" You must be the change, you wish to see in the world."
Another also from Gandhi " An eye for an eye, makes the whole world blind"</p>
<p>From Mae West " you only live once,but if you do it right once is enough"
;)</p>
<p>Oh yea, the quote I have typed up & keep my my computer, by Margaret Meade (tho it may be paraphrased),</p>
<p>“Do you think the one individual can make a difference? It’s the only thing that has ever made a difference.”</p>
<p>Use the above for inspiration when I am tired and discouraged.</p>
<p>JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”</p>
<p>Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. This saying has stopped me from over-reacting when I come upon a situation that bugs me.</p>
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<p>Thanks for posting that one! I have always only heard that shortened as “happy as a clam” and I never thought it made sense. Now I understand. :D</p>
<p>“all of life is 6 to 5 against,just close enough to keep it interesting”
“As you can tell from my record, I am an upstanding citizen. 30 arrests, no convictions” (Big Jules from “Guys and Dolls”)</p>
<p>Both from Damon Runyon, one of my favorite writers.</p>
<p>Another good one: “Don’t judge another person, unless you have spent time in their shoes” (I believe the original was a native american saying and it involved moccassins and walking 100 miles in them)</p>
<p>If you are not a liberal at age 20 you have no heart, if you are not a conservative by age 40 you have no head…Winston Churchill</p>