Philosophical one liners

[Hodge]

Buy cheap, buy twice.

 

 

Sent from Outerspace.

[Mull]

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubt, while the idiots are full of confidence.

 

You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

 

You can't make honey out of dogsh**e

 

If you've confidence you don't need brains.

[Arbtech Tree Services]

The advantage of stupidity over intelligence is that stupidity has no limits.

 

When designing something to be foolproof never underestimate the ingenuity of fools. [sorry Tom D, just spotted your signature...]

Edited June 23, 2013 by Arbtech Tree Services

[Chris Gagen]

you can't polish a turd

[TGB]

Life's too short to stuff a mushroom.

[treequip]

It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money -- that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot -- it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.

 

John Ruskin (possibly)

[Arbtech Tree Services]

Don't wrestle with a pig because you'll only get as dirty as the pig and the pig likes that.

 

Don't enter into a battle of wits as you'd be completely unarmed.

 

You couldn't fight your way out of a paper bag.

[Daniël Bos]

Achteraf kun je een koe in de kont kijken.

 

Which translates as:

 

With hindsight you can look up a cow's arse.

[broonie]

As thick in the heid as **** in the neck of a bottle.

[Arbtech Tree Services]

There's no such thing as a problem merely an opportunity, it's just every now and then i come up against an insurmountable opportunity.