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

[Ladybj]

"Learn not to make decisions out of fear or impulses, let your conscious dictate your life".

"People don't drink the sand because they are thirsty and can't find water, they drink
the sand because they don't know the difference".

 

[dseag2]

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."

Abe Lincoln

 

[JaniceM]

I made this up years ago because it seemed to accurately describe individuals, but it's become so much a part of my everyday speech I often forget I made it up til I get confused reactions from people:
"Nicotine vultures."
You know, individuals who are constantly pestering you for cigarettes, and if they see somebody with a cigarette or a puff of smoke they swoop in like vultures...

 

[Shalimar]

“Whatever gets you through the night.”

 

[Paco Dennis]

"If it isn't one thing, it's another."

 

[Chet]

Plan like you'll live forever. Live like you'll die tomorrow.

 

[funsearcher!]

It is what it is.
Everybody's got something.
It's a process, not an event.

 

[Shalimar]

“We are all under construction.”

 

[Medusa]

Don't worry about what others are thinking about you... because they're not.

 

[911]

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut now and then.
If you can’t fight, run like the wind.
If I had a nickel for every spear of asparagus I ever ate, I would have a nickel.

 

[Paco Dennis]

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time”

 

[Pinky]

"It is what it is".

 

[MountainRa]

Loneliness does not come from having no people about, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself. Carl Jung

 

[Alligatorob]

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

 

[win231]

Don't believe everything you hear; & half of what you see.

 

[win231]

The greatness of a nation can be judged by how it treats its animals.

 

[win231]

Right is right, even if nobody is doing it.
Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is doing it.

 

[Alligatorob]

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

 

[win231]

If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.

 

[Llynn]

“Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.”
― Walt Kelly (spoken by Porkypine in the Pogo comic strip)

 

[Bella]

All that glitters is not gold.

Any port in a storm.

Actions speak louder than words.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

As happy as a clam.

All dressed up and nowhere to go.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

All's fair in love and war.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder (for someone else. )

Bella

 

[spectratg]

God willing and the creek don't rise!

 

[DebraMae]

No matter where you go, there you are!

 

[Bretrick]

I have always remembered this passage from Somerset Maugham's book - Of Human Bondage

“I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money.
They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off.
The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn.
You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist.
They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh.
They do not know how mean it makes you.
It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer.”

 

[WheatenLover]

I often say to myself and to my Ubuntu computer, "If it isn't one thing, it's another."

But my favorite saying is "actions speak louder than words".