What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[2LaneCruzer]

"I started raising horses several years ago and now I'm a millionaire...I was a billionaire when I started."

 

[/pine]

A boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into...

You can make a small fortune trading commodities if you start with a large fortune...

 

[bunyip]

A boat is a hole in the water that you pour money into...

You can make a small fortune trading commodities if you start with a large fortune...

One we use for sailing is 'keep the ocean on the outside'.

 

[Fuddy1952]

"A night with Venus; a lifetime with Mercury".

This quote originated in the days before Penicillin, when Syphilis was treated with Mercuric Chloride.

Granddad (rip) was a physician. One day he said he saw two patients...Sy Phyllis and Preg-Nancy.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I was trying to solve a problem and a carpenter friend said "don't ask me, to a carpenter everything looks like a nail". I asked him what does everything look like to a proctologist?

 

[/pine]

"Dead As A Door Nail"
From the use of large headed (decorative) nails driven through the outside faces of wood doors and clinched over on the inside to be covered with interior boards...leaving the nails "dead"...

"Dead As A Mackerel"
Keep one out of the water for just a few seconds and they're goners...!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Up a creek without a paddle

Up ship creek

 

[bunyip]

Up a creek without a paddle

Up ship creek

1. In a barbed wire canoe

2. They are using that in an insurance ad here at the moment, trying to call roadside assist and the father shouting into the phone 'No, SHIP Creek, SHIP Creek' while the kids are looking on laughing.
AAMI Roadside Assist - Up Ship Creek TV Commercial 217 - YouTube

 

[robertm]

"We named our basketball team the "Nads"; our favorite yell was "Go Nads!".

Is that like the coach of the always losing team that got sick of the other winning teams flaunting their win... yelling as they ran off the field, so he changed the name of his team name to “Off Daily”.

Now he smiles after he loses every game because the winners run off yelling “We beat....” Well, you get the picture.

 

[robertm]

That also was known as:
Carpenter's delight! Flat as a board!

or as my grandpa said... “She’s a Pirates delight! Sunken Chest”.