What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[Alan46]

Ceramic tile and stone installation. 30 yrs.
You were a finish carpenter?

I was a painting contractor. 38 yrs. in California

 

[dnw64]

Another job site saying when someone’s craftsmanship was in question: “ well... that’s good enough for the girls I know”. Didn’t make any sense but it was popular.

You tickled my memory with one I haven't seen (no pun intended) here yet.

"Can't see it from my house".

Also

"Is it good?"
"Good enough"

 

[dnw64]

How about it looks good from my house!

Ooops. Hadn't yet read this far...

 

[dnw64]

Good enough for government work!

Around here it was "Close enough for government work".

 

[dnw64]

I am amazed at the variety of human creativity.

This thread is at 5734 posts, and a good portion (well more than half, I think?) are quotes or sayings. Quotes or sayings that are pretty widely known, for the most part.

Now consider that all the ones I've seen so far are in (American) English. Every language has idioms which are totally meaningless in a different language. Even if we say that only 100 languages have an average number of quotes/sayings similar to the (American) English, we are talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000 distinct quotes/sayings.

 

[Alan46]

I am amazed at the variety of human creativity.

This thread is at 5734 posts, and a good portion (well more than half, I think?) are quotes or sayings. Quotes or sayings that are pretty widely known, for the most part.

Now consider that all the ones I've seen so far are in (American) English. Every language has idioms which are totally meaningless in a different language. Even if we say that only 100 languages have an average number of quotes/sayings similar to the (American) English, we are talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 250,000 distinct quotes/sayings.

As someone once said "that's a Load of quotes"

 

[goeduck]

All to often I would hear " I hope you brought your 1/2" caulk with you today" and I would say if I knew you were doing the finish work I would have! We would bust balls all day long! Those were the good old days!️

I remember being on a commercial site when open wiring started to be more common. I looked up at one guy's work and said "that looks like h3ll". He said "come back after I put the ceiling tile in, it will look much better then".

These days with open ceilings they can't do that as much.

 

[Alan46]

"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie"

 

[goeduck]

“California’s back to a two-party system: the Democrats and the Screen Actors Guild.” -Bob Hope

oops, that might political. Disregard. But it was funny.

 

[BravoXray]

I guess if I wanted it done right, I should have done it myself.