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Re: Favourite saying, or quote.

Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 9:05pm
by Mike Sales
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.

Re: Favourite saying, or quote.

Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 9:07pm
by Mike Sales
— Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

Re: Favourite saying, or quote.

Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 9:50pm
by 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.)

Re: Favourite saying, or quote.

Posted: 24 Aug 2024, 6:41am
by Audax67
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.

Re: Favourite saying, or quote.

Posted: 3 Sep 2024, 3:41pm
by oaklec
From a teacher to a student when I was in secondary school

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