What’s a Quote That Stuck With You?

Kate54

Everything happens for a reason. No, it doesn’t.

I so agree with you on this! I look at the disasters on the News and in my opinion, they prove that it doesn’t. What reason can there be for what we see happening?
Not wanting to start an ‘is there, isn’t there’ argument, but if there is a God, what possible reason could there be for these dreadful atrocities. If He didn’t want so many people in the world, and He is that powerful, why not stop so many being born?

Oh a couple of goodies there!

" Have you seen a nose looking for a face?" One of my mothers.
Said if she felt slighted.

I fear I may have wandered ( like the Oxus) from the question.

“Mind you don’t cut yourself with that tongue”

also my Nanwhenshe considered us to be ‘answering back’

StripeyGran

Well Rosie certainly had a good stab at it.

*There’s always a snake in Paradise*- one ofmy Nan’s many idioms

‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ is one that stays with me plus the old one about never speaking ill of anyone because it will get back to them. So true.

Better to keep your mouth shut and look a fool, than open it and prove that you are. .

"Do as you would be done by". from Charles Kingsley's Water Babiees which I read ad a yougs.ter.

I love the last two!

Civilisation is a veneer readily soluble in alcohol.

Many things may be preserved in alcohol but dignity is not one of them

“Let them”. Bit trite and overused now maybe but has made me stop and reset my thinking many times.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, Its thinking of yourself less. C.S Lewis

eddiecat78

Mark Twain "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened "

I need to remember this one

Time you've enjoyed wasting is not a waste of time.

Everything happens for a reason. No, it doesn’t.

“If you can fill the unfullfilléd minute,
with sixty seconds worth of distance run, thine is the earth, and all that is within it and, which is more, you’ll be a man, my son.”

Kipling but quoted by my father and never forgotten

Good clean dirt !!! Something my lovely mother always said when we came in from playing a bit on the mucky side! She also used to say it if we moaned about our own children getting mucky. I actually think she was so right when I see my own GC stuck in front of their computers and never a speck of dirt to be seen.

Janlara

"And after winter followeth green May"
Geoffrey Chaucer

We can only hope.

What a lovely line. Thanks!

‘Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace’

"When people show you who they are believe them the first time".

I've read it online a couple of years ago but it stuck with me from that moment because it had proved itself true many times. I'd notice something was wrong when there was a whole smartshow 3d presentation of someone's character traits and I would be very surprised when in fact there were signs subtly showing their true colors here and there from the very beginning.

"And after winter followeth green May"
Geoffrey Chaucer

We can only hope.

We have to (Circle the Wagons )when someone is in trouble

If debating whether to buy something, do something, basically treat yourself in one way, . my late DM would say, "why not, you're a long time dead". Has worked for me quite otten, even more so as time marches on.

Time wounds all heels.

Ninny123

My grandma used to say
As one door closes another opens - I’ve found through life it has proven true on several occasions

A variation on this: As one door closes, another one shuts.