Favourite saying, or quote.

[Mike Sales]

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.

[Mike Sales]

— Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

[Mike Sales]

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.)

[Audax67]

"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.

[oaklec]

From a teacher to a student when I was in secondary school

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

[roadbiker]

For me maybe:

All that glitters is not gold

Go ahead, make my day

[Carlton green]

"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.

My Mum used to say “walk straight and don’t let on you’re bandy”, she was born and brought up within that time when rickets was still an issue. One of her favourite sayings was: “it’s all for some wise purpose” … and that almost always - if sometimes after quite some time - proved to be the case.

[Audax67]

If you think Nature is your friend you have no need of an enemy. - Kurt Vonnegut.

Heard that on YT, in the Letters Live channel, and it's been rattling round in my head ever since.

Here: https://youtu.be/KhhTr8wH2P4?si=1TE4aA1XEu-1ygVT

Some great stuff in LL.

[a.twiddler]

Heard while camping in Wales some years ago.
Two campers in a nearby tent overheard apparently discussing a mutual friend. One said, "You know how they calls him Dai Bungalow?" "Why's that then?" asked the other. "Cos he's got nothing upstairs, of course" came the reply.

[Stradageek]

Northamptonshire saying that flummoxed me:

"It's black over Bill's mother's"

Rainclouds gathering, you're going to get wet.

[sjs]

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.

Wake meaning weak, in a Derbyshire accent.

[Carlton green]

I hadn’t realised that similar sentiment had spread through other parts of the country. When I lived in Swindon (part of the historic county of Wiltshire) one of the local sayings was: ‘Wiltshire born and Wiltshire bred, strong in the arm and thick in the head’. My own experience of Swindon was quite positive, it served me well and I could be happy there again, but I can also understand why others might choose a different place to live. The rest of Wiltshire is, I think, a bit of an undiscovered or overlooked gem.

[willcee]

My dad had a favorite... as Mad as a March hare, and another .. Common sense son, isn't Common!! Will

[kylecycler]

Stereotypical Irish response if you're touring in Ireland and ask for directions: "Well if I was goin' dere I wouldn't start from here."

[Mike Sales]

Strine curse.
"May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down".