Life's advice and phrases....

[TheGrayRider]

You can always make more money, but you cannot make more time.

 

[Ben Lamb]

My father, after meeting my exes' mother and it not going well: "They turn into their mothers, you know."

 

[IDFireLass]

A bad ride beats a good walk any day. My dad rest his soul.

I totally agree and wish I had a horse to ride. Still have all my equipment and then some.

 

[WestKyHunt]

One of the great challenges in life is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong - Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

[WestKyHunt]

disappointment is a steady hammer in the beating that is life - me to my 10yr old little cousin

 

[Tradewind]

 

[noharleyyet]

"The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series."

-Tommy Lasorda

 

[Stifler]

"Well hell boys! Looks like your past the smell! You guys about got her licked!" Unknown Montana Rancher

One of my favorites that stuck with me from a jobsite here on a Montana ranch years back.

 

[Wild Bill]

"You've got two ears and one mouth. Use them in proportion."
Can't remember where I head it.

 

[gradeAchuck]

K.I.S.S - Keep it simple and stupid. Not sure who said it first, but I first heard it from my old man.

 

[Straight Arrow]

K.I.S.S - Keep it simple and stupid. Not sure who said it first, but I first heard it from my old man.

I believe the standard version is "Keep It Simple, Stupid!" (Advice to Stupid, the guy whose idea was way too complicated to be viable. It was often heard in the military.)

 

[timberman56]

dad always said ''if you ant early-you're late"

 

[reallyoldman]

"as worthless as tits on a boar hog"...from my first boss

 

[Straight Arrow]

You can be early ... or you can be late.
You can be there on time ... or you can make people wait.
You can be on top of the mountain ... or down in the mine.
But everybody's gotta be somewhere ... all of the time! anonymous

 

[gouch]

A female co-worker said this to me after a long meeting with our supervisor. "Talking to that man is like trying to F#ck a limp dick."

 

[Chama Grande]

We hate two things:

• Change
• The way things are

I work state government so it applies almost daily

 

[Nemont]

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" heard it many times don't know who said it first

"It takes a big dog to whip a 300lb cat", My grandpa once when I asked him what he was thinking, no idea why he was thinking that

"Insurance is designed to cover everything except what actually happens" at an Insurance Continuing Ed class

"he/she is not a MENSA member" My squad leader when explaining what a particular private was such a screw up at everything

 

[Sawtooth]

Be a fountain not a drain.

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones that need the advice.