What’s a Quote That Stuck With You?

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do not waste emotional energy on things you can do nothing about, how I wish I had learnt that sooner!

Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those that matter don't mind! Dr Seuss

Milest0ne

My dad used to say Grass never grew on a busy street Or through concrete . He applied it to his bald head and intelligence.

My husband says this (probably for the same reason) and goes rather quiet when I reply that grass doesn’t grow in a desert either…

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ". John Lennon.

Buy cheap and you buy twice.

Life’s too short to stuff a mushroom.

I got a million of em! My top 3 are:
‘You are the author of your own life’
‘We see the world not as it is but as we are’
‘Nobody can patronise you without your consent’

A friend in need is someone to be avoided.

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

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. I think of it every time someone - often a politician - feels they have to apologise for things that happened many years ago when totally different norms and values applied.

Blowing out someone else’s candle will never make your own shine more brightly.

Hope for the best, expect the worse, and take what comes

"Success can't be measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart".

The Dalai Lama.

People don’t care what they know until they know that you cate

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.".

JamesandJon33

Luckygirl

Love that quotation Hurt people, hurt people. Apparently it is much older than Lemn Sissy, and was reborn in the 1950s in Texas

Similar to damaged people are dangerous.

Quote for painting my 2-up, 2-down cottage interior, £8000!

watermeadow

Quote for painting my 2-up, 2-down cottage interior, £8000!

Very witty, somebody will be along to have a go at you any minute now.

My headmistress used to quote "Facepowder catches a man, baking powder keeps him" - this in a very forward thinking, Third World grammer school, offering both Domestic Science and "real" sciences to girls of all sorts of backgrounds!

It’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

In order for evil to flourish,the good should do nothing.

"Be kind, others are facing a hard battle."

'From quiet homes, and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter, and the love of friends'.

Hilaire Belloc - probaably my favourite quote among many.

You're only as happy as your least happiest child.