Don’t borrow trouble from tomorrow.
Lock the stable after the horse is stolen.
“Bloom where you are planted.”
I also use “not my circus, not my monkeys”
I think I learned “not my circus, not my monkeys” from CC. My kids picked it up from me and use it too.
Not everything can be fixed—-learned from Dr. Laura.
Another vote for “you can’t fix stupid.”
Here’s one I first heard on CC and like:
You can’t keep trouble from coming, but you don’t have to give it a chair to sit on.
Watching the Open and they are quoting Billie Jean King.
“Pressure is a Privilege ‘
You are the sum of your decisions; make good ones.
Is this the hill you want to die on?
My personal motto: If you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs…you clearly have failed to understand the seriousness of your situation.
My mom used to say as a consolation: “Small troubles keep the big ones away”.
A small group of committed people can change the world—indeed that’s the way most changes occur.
Courtesy of my family:
- We aren't rich enough to afford cheap stuff.
- One move equals two fires.
- A word is not a bird - once it flies out, you can't catch it.
- What's written with a pen can't be cut out with an axe.
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
My grandmother always said, “the things you worry about most never happen.”
My Dad said, “waste not, want not.”
I tell my kids, “it costs nothing to be kind.”
H often says, “Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you. Our kids have shortened this to just “Bear” (when someone complains about something that didn’t go their way).
This one is probably more common, but when I was in my 20s and bemoaning my (lack of) romantic life, my mom would say, “Better not to be married than to wish you weren’t.”
My favorite and the one I attempt to impress upon my kids…
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” (Sir Walter Scott, 1808).
Don’t “say” sorry… “show” sorry.
Don’t sweat the small stuff, and it’s all small stuff
@BunsenBurner now I know your heritage 
“Hope for the best but prepare for the worst” drives my wife and daughter crazy, but my son and I live by it. I guess that’s a divided house
Yes we have enough flashlights for the storm…
It’s a small world when you’re Jewish.
Most appropriate use was when we moved to California from Illinois and I met a woman who had worked for my dad 50 years earlier in Michigan. No connection; purely random chance.
“It’s a small world when you’re Jewish.”
I don’t say this but Yep. Here’s our story. Daughter goes out of state to work at a hospital as a nurse. First day her supervisor says “ Oh you’re Jewish, there is one other Jewish nurse here, maybe you know her” Daughter thinks “we don’t all know each other”.
Twenty minutes later supervisor sees someone coming down hall and says “ That’s the Jewish nurse I told you about” and daughter looked up and said “ Oh hey Emma”. Yep she knew her from overnight camp ( which was in a state neither my daughter or the other nurse was from nor in the state the hospital was located. )