One of my favourite sayings.

Why would you want to strike it?

If you strike it , does it stop working?

How many people have pocket watches these days? Nurses wear their watches on their chests and most other people wear them on the wrists.

The trouble with wise saws and sayings is that they often relate to things that no longer apply in the modern age.

But yes, of course, showing off is never called for and you're thought is wise.

It's a very old saying you daft lot!

'Striking' it meant opening it up (pocket watch)

It does still apply so long as you've got half a brain.

My favourite saying to someone who is really annoying.

"You'd make a parson throw his good book into the fire!"

Just in case the language is too old fashioned here's some definitions

par·son/ˈpärsən/Noun:
1.A beneficed member of the clergy; a rector or a vicar.
2.Any member of the clergy, esp. a Protestant one.

good book/Noun:
Bible: the sacred writings of the Christian religions

fire/fī(ə)r/Noun:
Combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke.

Try to be a bit more offensive vampirequeen.

You're not quite making it yet.

turn the other cheek !

J I've never heard of that saying before. I really like it.

My dad used to say "If a thing's worth doing it's worth doing badly". I always liked that.

Nicer way of putting it than "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing, full-stop".

Innit?

"O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!"

Robbie Burns - and my absolute favourite!

Had to search a bit to find the Scots version - I just think it sounds so much better than the English 'translation'!

matson is that your favourite saying, or were you giving advice there?

ana or -"would some gift to others gie, to see myself as I see me."!

Ariadne !

My father used to say when one door closes another one shuts.

JO4 ...I don't see how my joke was offensive. I didn't call anyone daft or suggest they only had half a brain as you did.

I think you are seeing things in my posts which are not there. If I choose at some time in the future to offend someone I will make sure that the person involved knows they are meant to be offended and others know it is not aimed at them.

Being nice to people is a really good idea

fine words ,but they butter no parsnips

the harder I work the luckier I become

Remenber the rainbows, forget the thunderstorms

Ageing can be engaging

What doesn"t kill you you makes you stronger

We"re for a good time , not a long time

Don"t stop doing things just because you"re older

Money isn"t everything , but it rates up there with oxygen

Never a dull moment

xx

Absentgrana, I believe that when one door shuts another one opens , all you have to do is push it

Oh I don't know Nonu. It's no good pushing a door that will open only when pulled.

Nit Picker !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL LOL LOL

I've updated an old one.

Beware Geeks sharing GIFs.

I had to look up GIFs - still not sure I understand what they are!

I like 'Before you do unto others make sure they want to be done unto the same way that you do'. Not pithy, but true!

On the wearing your learning lightly point, I wonder if David Cameron pretended he didn't know what magna carta meant on David Letterman last night.

He must have done at least four years of latin at his kind of schools and they're not exactly difficult words.

So we have to believe either that he is a bit thick and has a dodgy memory, or that he is a fibber?