Old Sayings and Superstitions

I have read all that has been written here and have really enjoyed the recollections of all.
This is a compilation of some of the “sayings” that I have heard and read. Some wise, some funny and some eh!.


It takes a hard lesson to make people learn

“He who is prepared is not anxious.” Chinese proverb

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth an
remove all doubt"

No matter how hard you try, you can not win a discussion or argument with an idiot. He or she will just drag you down to their level. Then beat you with experience.

"There are only two kinds of people in this world,
the kind that pick you up when you are down, and
those that put you there in the first place."

"Some people are alive simply because it is illegal to kill them."

A great many people think they are thinking when they are
merely rearranging their prejudices." --William James

"The political and commercial morals of the United States are
not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
---Mark Twain

"What you find repugnant, do not do unto others".

"Experts" are like A$$holes, their everywhere & most produce the same result

BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST BUT HOPE FOR THE BEST.

Fisherman: A Jerk on one end of the line, waiting for a jerk on the other
end.

"Remember, if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find
you handy."

Everybody Dies, Not Everybody Lives.

"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either."

"He who would trade his liberty for some small measure of safety deserves neither liberty nor safety". - Benjamin Franklin

"Ever notice how 'what the hell' is always the right decision?" . . . Marilyn Monroe

"Money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail."
- Kinky Friedman

"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and
stupidity" - Albert Einstein

TANSTAAFL “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

Teach a man to make fire and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

God made man, Sam Colt made them equal.

"Keep Honking - I'm Reloading"

“When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault
within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the
target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.”

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book. - Groucho Marx

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me
and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

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You have to live for something or you will die for nothing.

John Rambo.
 
Texas Slim said:
I remember a time I was building a little bird house in my grand parents backyard. My Grand dad leaned out the back door and told me no good would come of working on the Sabbath. Well, he'd no sooner got the words out of his mouth than I smashed my thumb with the hammer from my Handy Andy tool set. I couldn't believe it. Like he'd somehow foreseen the future. I still have that little tool set. It was satisfying not so many years ago to see my son out puttering in the garage with those very tools and to warn him not to swing a hammer on Sunday.
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I've noticed that there seems to be an epidemic of "not-enough-time" going around. People constantly feel that they don't have enough time to be properly attentive to their families, to spend time with friends, to volunteer the way they'd like to, to fix and maintain their possessions and property rather than watching them run down. I'm also interested to know that this lack of time seems to have coincided with our society's decreased observance of any sabbath (Sunday, Saturday, whatever). Anecdotally, I know that people who regard it as their religious duty to "tithe", or give 10% of their income to a church, report that they always end up having enough money, whereas before they tithed, they didn't. (By way of full disclosure, I'll add that this has been the case in my own life.) I wonder whether taking the sabbath seriously might have a favorable impact on the chronic hecticity problem, too.


Here's one of my favorite proverbs: "A child must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." I believe it comes from the Sioux. Years of camping and involvement in Scouting have shown me this again and again: kids will be incautious around fire--you'll see them taking risks more and more--and no amount of warning will change their behavior. Then they'll get just a little too careless, and suddenly (after a startled yelp) they'll have a lifelong respect for fire. The obvious caveat is that you've got to make sure they're not going to incinerate themselves or the surrounding landscape in the process.

I remember watching my younger brother shoot a .22 automatic pistol years ago. He was holding it with his thumbs interlaced behind the pistol, in such a way that one of his knuckles protruded up toward the rear of the slide--and was approaching a point at which the slide would predictably hit the tip of the upwardmost knuckle. I warned him about this two or three times--but he kept reverting to his knuckle-up position.

Finally, I saw him taking aim and noticed that, sure enough, his knuckle was directly in the path of the slide. Not too far, but the tip was there. I thought for just a second about warning him--but also had just enough time to assess that the gun was of a light caliber, the force behind the slide was not going to be enough to do much damage, and only the very tip of his knuckle was going to come to any grief. I stayed silent. He squeezed the trigger--"POP!" "Yaaah!" (he quickly removed his non-shooting hand from the gun and shook it, having received a disconcerting scrape to the knuckle of his non-shooting thumb). He never had that problem again, and I never had to warn him again. I don't know--maybe I was running an undue risk, and he might have dropped the gun and accidentally shot one of us dead--but at the time it seemed the wise thing to do, and it worked. Your mileage may vary.
 
"There ain't no shame in being poor, but it's Mighty un-handy."

Aint that the truth.
 
"No matter how hard you try, you can not win a discussion or argument with an idiot. He or she will just drag you down to their level. Then beat you with experience."

LOL . This is my favorite of the thread.
 
I have never been lost in the woods but several times I got kind of confused for a few days.
 
My dad once said to me, in reference to guns, "you'll probably never need it, but if you do need it, nothing else will do."

That really stuck to me and now I own a lot of guns! But really I think the wisdom there is in the realization that you need some things in life and not others, and each person has to figure out what is right for them. I realize I am reading a lot into it, but I think that's the thing about insight: it's not that you learn about what was said, it's that by thinking about what was said, you learn a lot about yourself.
 
I often respond to such nonsense by remarking that the opinion of a compound shooter is of no consequence to an archer.

Fire, it goes without question, is mankind’s most important technical appliance. And finding out how to actually make fire, is man’s most important invention.


And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. (Abraham Lincoln)

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Political Correctness - a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.


"In the school of the woods there is no graduation day" Horace Kephart

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they
wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're
going to feel all day. "
~Frank Sinatra


"A good knife is everything! And, if you do not want to carry a knife, you should stay out of the woods". (Alton Safford - WW10-3-3)

This is one of the finer examples of the type of backwards thinking that my friend used to refer to as "masturbating because it makes your hand feel good"

"Who would believe that I, chronic complainer and impatient man of the ages, would ever look upon a lump of raw fish and a pint of water as wealth?" (68-Day 14)
From: Adrift, Steven Callahan, Houghton Mifflin, 1986, ISBN# 0-395-38206-8

Leisure time I have always regarded as a necessity too valuable to be easily negotiable.

If a man is talking in the woods and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

Ahh... the first law of drinking: Though it may feel like it, you cannot fall off the ground

how agreeable it is to do nothing - and then rest afterward!"

At a particular age people expect you to be calm, dignified and sober.
Disappoint them.


Once, parents would try to world-proof their children.
Now, they would rather shirk their responsibility and try to child-proof the world.

Sometimes I wake up grumpy, and sometimes I let her sleep.

It’s just like after a funeral, everybody has sex.” Jacqueline Obradors in Six Days, Seven Nights.

"Such a liar he had to hire somebody to call his dog ''

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" until you find a rock

Doc
 
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
-- George Bernard Shaw

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt

"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it Fred!"
-- Superchicken
 
"It's difficult to awake somebody who sleeps; it's impossible to awake somebody who makes pretence sleep." (Arab proverb)

dantzk.
 
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