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[Rafter S]

Here is something my dad used to say when we were working construction.

When I get 15 cents rich I am going to quit this ****.

I guess he never got 15 cents rich because he kept doing it.

We had several, for those cases where something wasn't quite perfect.

"Only another carpenter would know the difference."

"Can't see it from my house."

For the record, before people start bad mouthing us for doing sub-par work, we had a reputation for very good work. In fact, it was over 30 years ago, but I still remember one client saying "Y'all's framing looks like other carpenter's trim work", and the painters were happy to work behind us because they didn't need to do nearly as much caulking and filling as they normally did.

 

[lavacarancher]

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

 

[shaz]

Referring to the surprising strength of the US dollar relative to other currencies "It's the healthiest horse in the glue factory"
Can't remember who said it.

 

[CowboyRam]

An ounce of doing is worth a pound of talk.

 

[Travlr]

Critical thinking and blind loyalty inhabit two different minds.

 

[Son of Butch]

What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly. - Morticia Adams

Normal depends on your perspective.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

 

[BFE]

Just now having read this entire thread with the tin roof quotes, I'll throw one in I heard years ago in the oil patch…

Noisier than two skeletons screwing on a tin roof using a tin can condom

 

[greybeard]

A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Œconomy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.

2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.

3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.

4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.

5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.

7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8[thly and Lastly]3 They are so grateful!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.
Benjamin Franklin

 

[Travlr]

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking.

 

[Son of Butch]

Fifty is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Ohhh - to be FIFTY again!!! Just celebrated 76th.

 

[gman4691]

Think, son! You've got to think! - Dad

Don't half-do nothin' - also Dad

 

[Ouachita]

"One boy is a whole boy, two boys is half a boy, and three boys ain't no boy at all"- Grandad expressing his opinion of me and my brothers getting chores done.

"Two can't get in it, and one can't wear it out"- Dad offering his sage advice to my older brother after his girlfriend went out with another guy.

 

[Dave]

There is a fine line between tough and stupid. And we know which side of that line you are on.

 

[Ouachita]

When you're dead, you don't know you're dead........and that works the same for stupid.

 

[CowboyRam]

My grandfather on moms side of the family saying was. How would you like to be on that ridge with nothing but a barbed wire belt and pair of spurs.

 

[Grayme]

Ohhh - to be FIFTY again!!! Just celebrated 76th.

67 for me yesterday.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Ohhh - to be FIFTY again!!! Just celebrated 76th.

Amen even though that's when the check engine light comes on .See the mechanic at 60 have replacement parts replaced at 70.
Thank the good Lord for replacement parts.
We have come a long way .

 

[Son of Butch]

See the mechanic at 60 have replacement parts replaced at 70.

Maybe, neighbor had hip replacement at 55 in January and cousin had hers replaced last week at 62 but her mother's
hip replacement was at 70. A neighbor's son just passed at 49 from bone cancer and friend's son with a wife and 3 kids 9-16
was just diagnosed with inoperable stage 4 esophageal cancer at 45 with 50/50 chance of 5 year survival.