Favourite sayings

No Rain, no flowers. 🌼

A little kindness goes a long way.

"One's fine, two's too many, three's not enough" (Anon, of martinis. Sound advice)

My Grandfather- ‘well I’ll go to th’foot of our stairs’ when hearing something that shocked or surprised him. Said in his strong Lancashire accent that’s hard to reproduce in writing.

If you are going through hell, keep going (Churchill I think)

My late Mum “you die if you worry, you die if you don’t so why worry?” (She lived to nearly 97).

A former neighbour “she looks like she could P**s vinegar” about a miserable looking woman.

‘Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp’.

How about ‘face like a well chewed caramel’

Julian of Norwich - “All will be well, all will be well, all manner of things will be well”

‘A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.’
Maybe not quite verbatim - I can’t remember who said it.

A pessimist is an optimist with experience.

When one door closes, another one shuts.

If you can’t say anything nice about someone, don’t say anything at all.
If you can’t be good, be careful

Jaxjacky

‘Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp’.

My dad used to say that one.

You can't put an old head on young shoulders. I can remember my grandmother saying that when she heard what my older cousins had been up to.

Life is a jest, and all things show it.
I thought so once, and now I know it.

John Gay's epitaph

My father had a similar one absent.

When one door closes another one slams in your face!

My uncle would say about a not very attractive person, "they are hard to look at."

My father having a glass of wine, "here's to us, none like us"

My Granny, if anyone broke wind, she would say "who let polly out of prison" which would make us all hoot with laughter.

my granny always told me - Whit's Fur Ye'll No Go By Ye and in proper english - What's for you will not go by you, i still use this phrase even to my doctor when i was diagnosed with cancer twice, first time my irish doctor said his granny used the same phrase.

The game's a bogie
The ba's on the slates
Yer bum's oot the windae

All used when things go somewhat awry.

To thine own self be true!

As GrandMattie upthread
Julian of Norwich

I'm as old as my tongue and a bit older than my teeth.

Another Granny-ism

"They're a' oot o' step but oor Jock".

Life's how it is,
Not how it should be ..........

He who laughs last never got the joke in the first place.

Looks like shes wet her knickers and its gone hard (Liverpudlian)

I could eat a child's bottom through a cane chair (very hungry)