What are your favorite........Cliches, Expressions, Adages, Mottos, Quotes, Proverbs, Idioms...

It's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
When told the price of something, Old Mack says:" Cheap at half the price" Huh?
It ain't over till the fat lady sings. Still don't get it.
It is what it is. double huh?
S--T happens.
 

We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop, Greek slave & fable author

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed
by those who are dumber.

~Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where
there is no river.

~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm
beginning to believe it.

~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone.

Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go
out and buy some more tunnel.

~John Quinton, American actor/writer

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds
from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."

I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will
stop telling the truth about them".
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952..

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~Texas Guinan. 19th century American businessman

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be
left to the politicians.

~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to
change the locks.

~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924
Olympic Games in Paris, 1902-1981)

You’re just damned lucky you don’t get all the Government you’ve paid for

~Will Rogers - “The Cowboy Philosopher”
 
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”


“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”


“I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.”

Rodney Dangerfield said this and it cracked me up.
 
I like "The truth will out" because it is an incomplete sentence that doesn't really make sense, yet I have often heard people quote it from somewhere.

"The truth will COME out" would make sense, or "The truth will eventually come out", or some variant that fits the original framework of the saying.

Tony
 
I like "The truth will out" because it is an incomplete sentence that doesn't really make sense, yet I have often heard people quote it from somewhere.

"The truth will COME out" would make sense, or "The truth will eventually come out", or some variant that fits the original framework of the saying.

Tony
I always figured it meant that the truth would out (expose) the liars.
 

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