Favourite saying, or quote.

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Mike Sales
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Paulatic wrote: 25 Feb 2022, 9:14am Usually
Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head
The version I heard is
Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred, strong in th'arm and wake in th'head.
Wake meaning as in Hereward. Or woke.
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— Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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I have collected quotations which strike me.
Westron wynde when wyll thow blow

the smalle rayne downe can Rayne

Cryst yf my love were in my Armys

And I yn my bed Agayne.
(Western Wind

O Western Wind when wilt thou blow
The small rain down can rain
Christ! my love were in my arms
and I in my bed again.)
It's the same the whole world over
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what gets the pleasure
Isn't it a blooming shame?
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Manc33 wrote: 23 Aug 2024, 8:40pm "Couldn't catch a pig in an entry"

My mates grandad used to say this, to describe someone that's bow-legged.
My father said that just once to my memory. Rickets was no longer common in the 50's.
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From a teacher to a student when I was in secondary school

"I wouldn't give you the drippings off my nose"
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