Really interested in your quirky or bizarre sayings that you use now and then as a rule of thumb or maybe an incentive, and when you would quote them. Just read one on the AAT forums, one of the AAT students used to have a teacher that said "How do you eat an Elephant? one bite at a time" thought that was quite apt to learning.
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I had an accounts teacher at school who plastered his classroom in motivational sayings. The one he always used was "the difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little bit extra"
Thems're good uns. I have caught myself saying "Curiouser and Curiouser" while reading my study text. I suppose this is a saying for any fans of Alice.
Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet Engines.
Rome wasn't built by having meetings. It was built by killing everyone who opposed it.
... On the latter one of those my bank manager has told me thats not actually a viable business model!
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A couple I have seen etched round a bar - He who hoots with the owl by night shall not soar with the eagle by day (or something like that)
Another one was May the skin of your a=== never cover a banjo.
I've just googled that second one and the full expression appears to be May the skin of your a=== never cover a banjo and may you get to heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're deid
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Never buy black socks from a normal shop. They shaft you every time.
My fave which I have used on here before is: Always borrow money from a pessimist as they never expect it back. and the other I like is. Once we know the difference between right and wrong then we are accountable for what we do. Not Oscar Wilde I know.
When I was teaching I used to say to people who got it wrong - if you never make mistakes you never learn or it's not a mistake it's a learning experience. It usually cheered them up - well the ones who didn't like to make mistakes anyway.
"Before you criticise someone you should try walking a mile in their shoes, then when you criticise them you will be a mile away and have a new pair of shoes."
Just thought of another one. "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off doing altogether!".
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