Respect...
'There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.' JB Priestly

'No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.' Seneca

'Each is a part of the main' (who said it?)

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!

'I hear and I forget; I see and I remember;
I do and I understand'. Chinese proverb

'There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so' Charles Caleb Colton

"Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

George Bush's version of Annika's Wise Saying!

I think George Bush could have a whole thread to himself Anagram

Don't get me started on George Bush.....

Allie is that a misquote from Donne? No man is an island?

Take what you want.....and pay for it.

Do as you would be done by.

Don't trouble trouble 'til trouble troubles you!

It's a long road that has no turning (one of my gran's favourites)

'People in glass houses'

Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a dream

...............if you see a crocodile
don't forget to scream. Aaagh!!

(2nd verse)

....if you see a polar bear
dont forget to SSSSShivver

If you have only a penny buy a ha'penny loaf and a lily. (think about it- chinese proverb)

If life an empty bubble be,
How sad for those who cannot see
The rainbow in the bubble.

Don't look at your hill, climb it.

For every evil under the sun
There is a remedy or there is none
If there be one, try and find it,
If there be none, never mind it.

Don't let your modesty wrong you.

These are some of my favourites from my collection of Mottoware. If sook sees this thread I bet she comes up with some more!

Hunt

Plain English Martin Cutts and Chrissie Maher

'Gobbledygook is the methodology deployed by governmental bureaucracies, specifically designed to ensure that the simplest of instructions is encased in a plethora of treacherous sub-clauses, adverbial phrases and cross references with the result that the recipient is left baffled, bemused and confused'

Is that your favourite Wise Saying, soop?

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.
Emmeline Pankhurst

Could be...on the other hand maybe not. I shall have to think about the consequences of what it is that I'm trying to say as I would hate to have my whatevers misconstrued.

Seize fortune by the forelock