Favourite Sayings .

[weecalf]

What would be your favourite sayings or one which you would say I wish I had said that first . I would have a few one of my favourite w ent something like “.If I had known I was gonna live as long I would have looked after myself “

[New Judge]

That saying was made by Micky Mantle, a US baseball player, who died of alcohol related illness in 1995. I'm not sure he was the first to utter it.

There are a number of quotes of Winston Churchill that I love:

“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

And some of his put-downs:

"Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about."

“I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

[Lady Astor to Churchill]: "If you were my husband I'd put poison in your tea."

[Churchill]: "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A couple of things he denies saying but wished he had:

“If you wanted nothing done, Arthur Balfour was the best man for the task. There was no one equal to him.”

"An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it."

One said to be attributed to Abraham Lincoln (though not confirmed):

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."

[THECORBYLOON]

Variations of the empty taxi quote have been around since the 1800s,

https://www.google.com/amp/s/quoteinvestigator.com/2017/04/30/empty-taxi/amp/

[calda49]

My father always taught me, when something I did went wrong:
Once is a mistake,
Twice is stupid,
Third time should never happen.

It has served me well, and I am nearly seventy!
The thought being, everyone can make a mistake, if you don't learn from it you are not very sensible, and if you you get to third time - oh dear!

[emmie]

i wouldn't belong to any club, that would have me as a member
Grocho Marx

better still is Dorothy Parkers
If your brains were gunpowder, you wouldn't have enough to
blow your hat off.

[Ken4155]

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - but do it first.

[emmie]

keep your friends close, but your enemies closer

[Vagus]

If you want to know ‘owt, say nowt.

[LadyCG]

Don't get mad, get even.

[ummmm]

'I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.'

-George Best.

[Peter Pedant]

what about least favourite?

very little is important and almost nothing is very important
( Stanley Baldwin 1935 )

that does not mean the pound in your pocket has been devalued
Labour 1967

forged in the white heat of the teckonological revolution
wilson 1963

you have never had it so good MacMillan 1959

weapons of mass destruction - Bliar