Sayings

[Anonymous]

Hello guys!

I hope you are having a good week so far. Cheer up! We're almost there.

I thought it could be a good idea to create a thread about the sayings you guys know. Probably some of them are very popular but I'm sure there are a lot I/we have never heard.

What phrases/sayings/proverbs represent your life?

Which ones do you usually say?

I'll go first: 'The grass is always greener on the other side'

Meaning: You always think that what's happening to others is better than yours. 

[Marjo]

Wow @Anonymous I'm feeling nostalgic. I remember having that one, they're comign to take me away hohohaha hehe as my ringtone years ago. I never knew where it was from though, just downloaded it from somewhere as it sounded funny!

[Anonymous]

It's alright to talk to yourself

It's answering yourself back ... that's the problem

Then the little green van will come

& men in white coats will get you 

This told to me by my mum when a kid ... ... ... I'm guessing, said in order to shut me up ... I used to sing all over the house ... particularly singing-along to music I'd recorded onto the Phillips reel-to-reel tape off the radio

[Glory1]

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@Marjo wrote:

Wow @Anonymous I'm feeling nostalgic. I remember having that one, they're comign to take me away hohohaha hehe as my ringtone years ago. I never knew where it was from though, just downloaded it from somewhere as it sounded funny!

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If memory serves it was actually a song @Marjo.

Can't for the life of me remember the title - could've been 'They're Coming to Take Me Away' - but I'm just guessing.

I used to say the men in the white coats are coming to take me away when I made an awful 'boob' 

[Marjo]

Based on the voice of whoever was singing/saying it, I kind of thought it was Danny Kaye at the time!

[Glory1]

Could well have been. It was just his sort of song.

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

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By Napolean XIV. After a bad day at work I used to have that playing on loop in my car...Also had a poster in the office....

[Glory1]

Thanks @jonsie, I thought it was a song but couldn't remember who sang, or should I say spoke, it.

And I got the title right. I'm so bad when it comes to names and titles.

[Glory1]

Oh and thanks @Cleoriff - you gave the umm ....singer's name. I must admit it never would have come to me, particularly as I wasn't sure it was a song.

[Anonymous]

sometimes you're the pigeon ... & ... sometimes you're the statue ... (told to me by a friend recently)

Anyone can be good ... but ... it takes practice to be Awesome ... (seen on a mug in town)