Best Advice You've Ever Been Given

[EdgeleyRob]

Seriously,my dear old dad.

"never volunteer for anything"
and
"if they are bugging you or picking on you,smile at them as you picture them in your mind,stark naked,sitting on the toilet,having a dump"

A psychiatrist many years ago when I was in a very dark place.

"If reading the papers and watching the news is making you anxious and depressed,then stop doing those things"

[amateur51]

The best I've ever had was on a tin of slug pellets:

'Keep away from children and animals'

It still guides me to this day.

[amateur51]

"Never let the sun set on undrained pus"

Wise words indeed.

[amateur51]

Advice on finding yourself at a dull gathering ...

Olympia Dukakis in the fillum Steel Magnolias

"If you've got nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit next to me"

[Petrushka]

Another one never forgotten is the old military maxim:

'Time spent in reconnaissance is never wasted'.

Just as valid for everyday life.

[EdgeleyRob]

I posted this on another thread,hopefully make you smile.

[amateur51]

Being very uncertain about what colours go with what colours, a florist friend advised me to think of a flower with the combination in question.

Sound advice - many's the fashion know-all I've baffled with it

[amateur51]

Another one never forgotten is the old military maxim:

'Time spent in reconnaissance is never wasted'.

Just as valid for everyday life.

General Eisenhower said that while planning was always a useful process, plans themselves almost always turned out to be worthless.

[amateur51]

An old surgeon's advice: "When in doubt, cut it out!"

[Richard Tarleton]

An old surgeon's advice: "When in doubt, cut it out!"

During a spell as a farm labourer many years ago, while we were cutting the twine on hay bales to break them up to feed them to animals, an old sage said to me: "Always cut towards your mate". This was the sage who also said "What the eye doesn't see, the foot treads in".

[teamsaint]

When I joined the civil service as a junior manager....

"If you want to get on round here, the last thing you want to do is any work".

I ignored him of course, and left, frustrated, but for a better life perhaps, three years later.

THis has stood me in good stead too !!


Que Sera Sera


When I was a little boy
I asked my mother what would I be
Would I be pompey?
Would I be Saints?
Here's what she said to me...
Wash your mouth out son
.............

[Richard Tarleton]

General Eisenhower said that while planning was always a useful process, plans themselves almost always turned out to be worthless.

Indeed. Or as General von Moltke (the elder) put it, no plan survives the first contact with the enemy.

[jean]

A teacher once said to me:-

"The reason you have two ears and one mouth is that you should do twice as much listening as you do speaking."

No wonder foreign language teaching used to have such a terrible reputation!

[vinteuil]

Never complain.
Never explain.
Never apologize.
Never repeat the mistake.

[Petrushka]

Another one I like is from Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister 1902 - 1905.

'Nothing matters very much, and very little matters at all'.