A Parable:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!
"Almost" only counts with horseshoes and grenades.
Something my 4th grade teacher use to say.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;40819496]"Almost" only counts with horseshoes and grenades.
Something my 4th grade teacher use to say.[/QUOTE]
I don't understand that one, care to explain?
[QUOTE=Falcqn;40821913]I don't understand that one, care to explain?[/QUOTE]
You get point in the game of horseshoes for throwing it close to your target (a small pole)
In the game of grenades you can still do a lot of damage if you don't hit someone with the grenade itself (the explosion)
You use it in the context of doing something other than horseshoes or hand grenades to say that something needs to be complete/right to matter.
Examples:
Building a wall
Making a basket in basketball
(I can't actually think of more examples that really fit)
Of course, this saying obviously isn't true because there are many more things than horseshoes and hand grenades where "almost" counts
"Don't stick your dick in crazy."
"One who is edible on an alien planet will not die of hunger!"
Beware the fury of a patient man.
[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;40806623]"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
I like this one because I'm not exactly the most beautiful person in the world[/QUOTE]
Beauty is only skin deep.
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
Quote could be butchered by the message remains the same.
[QUOTE=Meloan;40817080]A Parable:
A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted![/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45hM7iAkjk8[/media]
Be patient, and you will have all the time in the world.
[I]Popped a molly I'm sweatin'[/I]
"The best beer is free beer" - my father
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." -Mark Twain
A man can shake hands with another, but never with himself.
Confucius say:
Waitress act like she want the D, but she only really want tip
[I]"If it's brown, flush it down
if it's yellow let it mellow"[/I] - Judas
Who Dares, Wins
Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted.
[i]~~yolo[/i]
[I]"If you going to act like a bitch, you going to die like a bitch" -General Patton[/I]
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;40846294]Confucius say:
Waitress act like she want the D, but she only really want tip[/QUOTE]
Confucius say:
Man who drop watch in toilet have shitty time.
[QUOTE=johnsten;40784766]the most depressing saying i have ever heard[/QUOTE]
I always find it really fascinating when another language has a word or saying for stuff like this.
[quote]Is minic a gheibhean beal oscailt diog dunta - An open mouth often catches a closed fist.[/quote]
Gotta love Irish sayings.
[I]"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind"[/I] -Captain price
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
[I]Driven by hunger, a fox tried to reach some grapes hanging high on the vine but was unable to, although he leaped with all his strength. As he went away, the fox remarked, 'Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.
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Also I love these lyrics, they're like a little story:
[QUOTE][I]I sailed a wild, wild sea
climbed up a tall, tall mountain
I met a old, old man
beneath a weeping willow tree
He said now if you got some questions
go and lay them at my feet
but my time here is brief
so you'll have to pick just three
And I said
What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart
and how can a man like me remain in the light
and if life is really as short as they say
then why is the night so long
and then the sun went down
and he sang for me this song
See I once was a young fool like you
afraid to do the things
that I knew I had to do
So I played an escapade just like you
I played an escapade just like you
I sailed a wild, wild sea
climbed up a tall, tall mountain
I met an old, old man
he sat beneath a sapling tree
He said now if you got some questions
go and lay them at my feet
but my time here is brief
so you'll have to pick just three
And I said
What do you do with the pieces of a broken heart
and how can a man like me remain in the light
and if life is really as short as they say
then why is the night so long
and then the sun went down
and he played for me this song[/I][/QUOTE]
"he who sleeps with itchy bum, wake up with stinky finger"
-[I]Confucius[/I]
[QUOTE=Revanold;40846583][I]"If it's brown, flush it down
if it's yellow let it mellow"[/I] - Judas[/QUOTE]
Honestly it would be more sanitary to do the opposite as urine that sits for a while releases toxic gasses into the air.
In an enclosed bathroom, that wouldn't be too healthy.
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
-Orson Scott Card
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