Favourite sayings

‘Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp’.

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.

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

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.

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

No Rain, no flowers. 🌼

A little kindness goes a long way.

I can do something no one else can do, read my handwriting.

My grandfather “Let the dog see the rabbit” translated as out of the way so I can see what I’m doing

My Irish stepfather (instead of “cheers”) - may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.

Don’t let what was or could have been spoil what is or might be.

This too, shall pass.

“A little tact consists in knowing how far to go too far” Jean Cocteau

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.” De Balzac

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd rather wear out, than rust out - my mum

The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.
Sherrilyn Kenyon

We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns.. That was one of my Grandad's sayings too.

My other Grandad always wrote Lang may yer lum reek in our birthday cards.

It is on the debris of our despair that we build our character. ? Emerson

My Dad: "You're no sae green as you're cabbage looking."
Granny: "Worse things happen at sea."

'The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.'

I have the simplest taste - I like nothing but the best (Oscar Wilde)

We're a' Jock Tamson's bairns.

and

If not me, who? If not now, when?

God helps those who help themselves

Juno56 The Duke of Wellington had a similar saying 'I made my campaigns using rope, and if a piece broke I tied a knot.'

(compared with Napoleon who 'built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed.'

"I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china." Oscar Wilde.

‘Work is the curse of the drinking classes.’ (Oscar Wilde, IIRC.)

My favourite is by Dorothy Parker and I use it quite often to turn down an alcoholic drink which I don't want, without offending the person who's offering the drink:

"I'm really not much of a drinker
Just one or two at the most.
Three, I'm under the table
Four, I'm under the host"

Always raises a laugh.

Happy Easter Juno56.
I like that saying. I think it's what a lot of people do.