Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results
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Saw this on a tshirt yesterday and I liked it: “Don’t trip over what’s behind you.”
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When you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back at you.
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Be kind. It doesn’t cost anything but you get it back in bunches.
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Build an bridge and get over it.
All from my Dad and of course his famous line:
“Were you born in a barn??? Then you have no excuse for not doing well”.
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Starość nie radość which expresses “Old age is no fun” in Polish.
When my immigrant grandparents said it, I smiled and dismissed its wisdom. When my parents, aunts and uncles said it philosophically, I started to sympathize. I’m now at the stage where I’m beginning to understand.
I think many cultures and languages have analogous sayings.
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Variety is the spice of life.
Use it or lose it.
Location. Location. Location.
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No is a complete sentence.
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Not to decide is to decide.
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One I often used with various teams at work: “Hope is not a strategy”.
“Don’t live life looking in the rear-view mirror.”
And I’ve stolen from the band Rush, similar to the above, “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”.
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.
“Don’t go away mad. Just go away.”
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I just asked dh whether he had a favorite saying. He said, “Holy crap.” 
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I really don’t hate you. It’s just that if you were on fire, I’d roast marshmallows.
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It’s hell getting old, but it beats the alternative.
“Busier than a one-legged person in an ass-kicking contest”.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Time is money.
A happy child is an easy child.
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You are only as happy as your least happy child.
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From my dad-Moderation in all things, including moderation itself
Something I mutter to myself on occasion in regard to others (and myself), but rarely express-To fail to plan is to plan to fail
In regard to regrets-It is good to glance in the rear view mirror, but don’t stare
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One of the things I love about this thread takes me back to my 30th birthday - my mom asked if there was anything special I would like, and with no hesitation I said Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations! Nearly 1500 pages of inspiration from ages ago to modern times. I love this book!
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Related to that - something my daughter used to say when we were hemming and hawing about given her permission to something:
“No is an acceptable answer!”
Related:
“If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.”
(Country & Western translation)
“Happy wife, happy life.”
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Success is one of the possible outcomes.
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