What’s a Quote That Stuck With You?

Oh friendlygingercat! I have to agree with you!
Isn't it sad, when by trying to be helpful you get bitten on the botty! I'm a lot more wary of people now!
No more Mrs Push-over! It's a case of seven- times bitten 14 times shy, alas! 🤔

sodapop

Not sure I have this the right way round 'All will be well and all shall be well' Mother Julian of Norwich. I find it comforting.

The one I really dislike is 'it is what it is '.

Thank you so much.

Full version is “All shall be well: and all manner of things shall be well”.

It’s quoted by TS Eliot in the final page of his stunning poem, “The Four Quartets” which is a long redemptive poem about so many aspects of life, its knots, its paradoxes, its pain and joys, so that is how it ends.

Jaxjacky

‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ has stuck with me and I hope I do it too.

My mums was a similar version:
“Do as you would be done by”

And from my sister (a doctor)

“Do no harm”

"No good deed goes unpunished"

On several occasions in the past I did good deeds for neighbours and they all used the occasion to take advantage. One more or less turned me into her PA after I helped her with a DLA form. Next I was doing her shopping, banking and phone calls while her lazy son sat at home. Eventually I had to drop the rope.

Now I have minimal contact with the likes of neighbours and never open the door unless its a courier/postie or pre-arranged visitor.

Jennerdysphoria

All the world is queer, except thee and me. And even thee is a little queer.

I love this wonderful, daft quote!
Thank you for sharing this. 🙂

"What you've never had you never miss"
"If in doubt, don't!"

Not sure if these have been mentioned but;

1. Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary emotion.

2. "Hell is empty and all the devils are here"

purplehead

Stop reaching for the stars and failing to see the flowers at your feet.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift = that is why it is called the present

This I like!

Frenchgalinspain

Jaxjacky

‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’ has stuck with me and I hope I do it too.

Wise advice ..

Or….. do unto others before they do you😁

All the world is queer, except thee and me. And even thee is a little queer.

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
- Matthew 11.28-30

This really hit me when I read it as an enquirer into Christianity 37 years ago, and I have loved it ever since. I found it true.

"Lord what fools these mortals be."

I've never heard of this saying before but it's great.
I might nick-it as there's often a "Snake in my paradise." AKA DH.

DrWatson

H L Mencken (the 'Sage of Baltimore', probably between WW1 & 2) :- "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public".

He also (in a real moment of clairvoyance) stated "On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.".

Wow! I must look up Mencken.

Flumps70

Never accept 2nd best
Written in a book given to me by my late karate sensei.
I have now arranged for it to be on my kickboxing necklace

On the other hand, 'Don't make the best the enemy of the good'. Competition can go too far and ruin everything and everyone except the outright winner.

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

If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all

Sudden prayers make God jump.

Stop reaching for the stars and failing to see the flowers at your feet.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift = that is why it is called the present

Give a man a fish and you give him a meal.

Teach a man to fish and with any luck, you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names can break my heart.

Never judge another man till you have walked 1,000 miles in his moccasins.

‘An ounce of help is worth a pound of advice.’

Pre-metric quote, still relevant though.

annodomini

"To thine own self be true"
Taken out of context from Hamlet.

"To thine own self be true
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man"

From Hamlet
Polonious' advice to his son Laertes who is off to university.

Mine is altered by me
Sticks and Stones May break my bones they will mend
Names hurt forever!

"To thine own self be true"
Taken out of context from Hamlet.