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overthehill Sun 09-Apr-23 10:29:02

Think is was George Burns but can't be sure.
"If I'd known I'd last this long. I'd have taken better care of myself".

Woody Allen
"I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens".

SachaMac Sun 09-Apr-23 17:30:44

No Rain, no flowers. 🌼

A little kindness goes a long way.

LadyHonoriaDedlock Sun 09-Apr-23 18:24:55

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

Thorntrees Sun 09-Apr-23 18:44:09

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.

Palmtree Sun 09-Apr-23 19:23:53

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

Primrose53 Sun 09-Apr-23 19:47:12

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.

Jaxjacky Sun 09-Apr-23 20:17:01

‘Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp’.

Llamedos13 Mon 10-Apr-23 04:00:59

How about ‘face like a well chewed caramel’

grandMattie Mon 10-Apr-23 05:56:47

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

Witzend Mon 10-Apr-23 07:31:48

‘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.

Calendargirl Mon 10-Apr-23 07:33:23

A pessimist is an optimist with experience.

absent Mon 10-Apr-23 07:36:44

When one door closes, another one shuts.

nanna8 Mon 10-Apr-23 07:41:33

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

LRavenscroft Mon 10-Apr-23 07:51:36

Jaxjacky

‘Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp’.

My dad used to say that one.

Mamardoit Mon 10-Apr-23 08:42:59

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.

grumppa Mon 10-Apr-23 11:08:22

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

John Gay's epitaph

Greenfinch Mon 10-Apr-23 11:12:49

My father had a similar one absent.

When one door closes another one slams in your face!

GrannyZoom Mon 10-Apr-23 11:22:49

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.

nexus63 Mon 10-Apr-23 11:35:33

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.

Parsley3 Mon 10-Apr-23 12:03:57

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

All used when things go somewhat awry.

kittylester Mon 10-Apr-23 12:05:24

To thine own self be true!

Auntieflo Mon 10-Apr-23 12:10:29

As GrandMattie upthread
Julian of Norwich

Shelflife Mon 10-Apr-23 12:29:28

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

annodomini Mon 10-Apr-23 12:49:13

Another Granny-ism

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

DanniRae Mon 10-Apr-23 12:57:13

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

biglouis Mon 10-Apr-23 12:57:32

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)