Sayings, axioms, adages etc that appeal.

[CheeseHead]

"I would never join a club that would have me as a member"

 

Groucho Marx

[Sampson]

“The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't the search for meaning; is to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually, you will be dead.”

Mr. Peanutbutter

[ozleicester]

“Confidence. It’s the food of the wise man but the liquor of the fool.” -Vickram

[foxfanazer]

1 hour ago, RoboFox said:

“When a Clown moves into a Palace, he doesn't become a King. The Palace instead becomes a Circus.”

- A Turkish proverb.

Thinking of anyone in particular? 

[SouthStandUpperTier]

https://www.mlb.com/news/yogisms-best-yogi-berra-sayings#

 

In addition to his sublime play on the diamond, the legendary Yogi Berra was known for his memorable quips.

 

His quirky sayings helped sculpt his lovable image and made him a celebrity who transcended baseball, even though he sometimes denied having said some of the phrases attributed to him, once saying, "I really didn't say everything I said."

 

Whether or not he said them verbatim, one thing is certain: Berra's quotes have entered the American lexicon like few athletes before him and they helped make him one of the most beloved figures of his time.

 

Here is a sampling of some of the most famous sayings that have been attributed to the Yankees icon.

 

• Perhaps his most famous of all: "It ain't over 'til it's over."

 

• "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical."

 

• On posterity: "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."

 

• "You can observe a lot by watching."

 

• "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

 

• About a St. Louis restaurant: "No one goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

 

• About the effect of the sun in left field in the old Yankee Stadium during late-season games: "It gets late early out there."

 

• About Bill Dickey: "He learned me all his experience."

 

• "If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?"

 

• "We made too many wrong mistakes."

 

• "Pie a la mode, with ice cream."

 

• "I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question."

 

• "You tell the stupidest questions."

 

• "Never answer an anonymous letter."

 

• On the great Sandy Koufax: "I can see how he won 25 games. What I don't understand is how he lost five."

 

• On lining up for a Spring Training drill: "Pair 'em up in threes."

 

• On the 1973 Mets: "We were overwhelming underdogs."

 

• The recording heard on the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center's phone: "This message won't be over 'til it's done."

 

• "In baseball, you don't know nothing."

 

• On being honored in his hometown of St. Louis during his rookie season: "I want to thank everybody for making this day necessary."

 

• "The future ain't what it used to be."

 

• "Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."

 

• On pregame preparation: "I usually take a two-hour nap from 1 to 4."

 

• On advising a young player trying to emulate the great Frank Robinson's swing: "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

 

• "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

 

• "All pitchers are liars or crybabies."

 

• On his hitting approach: "I can't think and hit at the same time."

 

• "So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."

 

• "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."

 

• "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

 

• On economics: "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

 

• "Always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't come to yours."

 

• And last but certainly not least: "It's deja vu all over again."

[boots60]

'I only drink on two occasions, when I'm thirsty and when I'm not'
Brendan Behan

 

"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
-W.C.Fields

 

Work is the curse of the drinking Classes - Oscar Wilde

 

"Good people drink good beer" Hunter S Thompson

[Foxdiamond]

Only as good as your last game.

Youth is wasted on the young

[Zear0]

That cannae be AC/DC? - A. McCoist. 

[davieG]

[leicsmac]

54 minutes ago, davieG said:

Time is the most valuable resource for exactly this reason.

 

Every other resource, at a fundamental level, is a means to utilise it as best a person can.

[surrifox]

On 22/11/2024 at 12:06, SouthStandUpperTier said:

https://www.mlb.com/news/yogisms-best-yogi-berra-sayings#

 

In addition to his sublime play on the diamond, the legendary Yogi Berra was known for his memorable quips.

 

" I'm smarter than the average bear, Boo Boo " was one of his too I think 

(one for the youngsters) 

 

[davieG]

[Guest Lako42]

If at first you don't succeed, sky diving isn't for you

 

 

 

- Me

[davieG]

“The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde: who died (was murdered, actually) on this day in 1900.” —h/t Ted Sod

· A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

· Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

· There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

· To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

· We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

· An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

· Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

· One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

· The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

· Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

· Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

· Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

· All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

· It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

· There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

· Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

· Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

· There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

· Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

· The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

· Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

· It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

· The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

· America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

· There is no sin except stupidity.

· It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

· A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

· Only the shallow know themselves.

· Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

· He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

· A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.

· Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

 

[leicsmac]

"That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind." - JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, on Sauron and the limitations of his darkness.

[davieG]

[blabyboy]

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain"

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

People of the highest integrity.

 

That scientific knowledge, the discoveries it makes and the progress it gives belong to humanity rather than a small part of it is not only a moral truth, but also fundamentally utilitarian in giving our species and others the best chance to survive.

[davieG]

[davieG]

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken.

Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

~Carl Sagan

[davieG]

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[Nalis]

The more I practice the luckier I get

[davieG]

 

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[davieG]

It’s amazing and sad how many of these old sayings are so relevant today