Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 9:05pm
— Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
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Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 9:07pm
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 23 Aug 2024, 9:50pm
I have collected quotations which strike me.
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.)
(Western WindWestron 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.
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
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 3 Sep 2024, 3:41pm
From a teacher to a student when I was in secondary school
"I wouldn't give you the drippings off my nose"
"I wouldn't give you the drippings off my nose"
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 31 Dec 2024, 6:57pm
For me maybe:
All that glitters is not gold
Go ahead, make my day
All that glitters is not gold
Go ahead, make my day
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 31 Dec 2024, 8:15pm
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.
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 1 Jan 2025, 9:54am
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.
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.
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 7 Jan 2025, 1:54pm
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.
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.
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 8 Jan 2025, 8:01am
Northamptonshire saying that flummoxed me:
"It's black over Bill's mother's"
Rainclouds gathering, you're going to get wet.
"It's black over Bill's mother's"
Rainclouds gathering, you're going to get wet.
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 8 Jan 2025, 9:19am
Wake meaning weak, in a Derbyshire accent.Mike Sales wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024, 9:05pmThe 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: 8 Jan 2025, 9:47am
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.
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 10 Jan 2025, 3:17pm
My dad had a favorite... as Mad as a March hare, and another .. Common sense son, isn't Common!! Will
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 11 Jan 2025, 5:46pm
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."
Re: Favourite saying, or quote.
Posted: 13 Jan 2025, 9:11am
Strine curse.
"May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down".
"May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down".