Idioms - what is your favourite and why?

No matter where you go, there you are. (tried to get out of this one more than once!)
You get nothing for a nickel and twice as much for a dime.
If wishin' was fishin', I'd be watching a bobber dance right about now. (my own)

 

Anything not nailed down is free - anything I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Hard work never killed anyone, but why take chances?

Just because I am listening, doesn't mean I care.

At first you don't succeed, give up - no need to look like an idiot.

 

I wonder if this would work on a stuborn computer case?
Dont think i'd try the hammer though

 

Never Attribute to Malice when Stupidity will Suffice.

Good enough is enemy of the best (an old engineering saying).

 

If it does not move paint it
if it does move salute it (old british army saying):major

 

Heard many a sailor bemoan these comments (particularly when it came to painting ships)

LOL Heard this one too! Still cracks me up.

 

LOL Especially if you've really stuffed things up!

 

Classic. And it works like a charm!

roflmao Good slant on that blasted dog-eared saying. Demanding projects pretty much used to have us speaking like that by the end of a long night when we were almost brain dead.:foolish

Would love to use that one....unfortunately protocol dictates another approach.LOL

 

If at first you dont succeed...
...cheat!

 

You win some, you lose some, it's how you play the game that counts. (mom's fav.)

 

Avoid hangovers - Stay DRUNK

:drink

 

Those who can DO,

those who can't TEACH

 

roflmao

 

Takes one to know one...

 

The best form of defence is Attack :boxing

 

An "EXPERT" is anybody from out of town.

 

I'm not a regular poster...but this is one I didnt see..

Opinions are like A**Holes ......everyone has one...and no one thinks their own stinks.

Oklahoma USA

 

And when someone is mad about something...Mama always says..

"He/She has the same Britches to get glad in."

 

One I've always heard is .... "you don't know sh*t from Shinola (Sp?) ....but I never knew what shinola is..

 

Shinola is shoe polish/dye.

 

Better to be pissed off, than pissed on.

 

Those that are "Pissed Off" are always the ones that are "Pissed On".......LOL LOL.........Sorry Adrynalyne just couldn't help myself (or your sweet daughter made me do it..........Honest)LOL LOL Which ever...........

 

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

and my wife's favorite
pull my nightie down when your finished (she knows how to hurt a guy)

 

Thank you...now untill I get alzheimers I shall never forget what shinola is.

 

She wasn't hit by an ugly stick, she got hit by the whole tree. rolleyes
Dumb as a rock.
PS: That is pointed at no one.

 

As for the ugly one.... My Mama says

"she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down"

 

Do unto others before they do unto you.

 

i can't claim this for myself i heard it last night on tv (Judging Amy)

dreams are wishes fulfilled

ADRYN your version is more up to date than mine

 

A whole truck load of ugly lumber must have fallen on that boy.

 

I wouldn't go knocking on every door bragging that one up.

means that it is a very dubious thing that is being bragged about.

 

Just remember if you're pissing upstream today, you may be downstream tomorrow.

An old military saying my Dad taught me.