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Give a man a fish in his hands and he eats for a day. Leave a man a fish in his pockets and "he stinks" for the rest of his life. 🐟

#saying #adaptation #fish #humor

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

“If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly,” said Granny, fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 3, Equal Rites (1987)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8523…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #grannyweatherwax #adage #adult #aphorism #appealtotradition #argument #debate #proverb #rhetoric #saying

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Obst #fotovorschlag

An apple a day
keeps the doctor away!

#photography #bnw #bw #fruit #saying

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116821762943906148

$25K for a golf cart and they didn't even include proper seats? 😒

Like the saying goes: You can take the person out of Apple and Audi but you can't take Apple and Audi out of the person. 🙄

#Apple #Audi #buggy #cart #ridiculous #pricing #saying

I saw an apple fall and it was nowhere near a tree. I don't know what to believe any more. 🫩

#apple #tree #saying #humor

It is said THERE IS NOTHING MORE DANGEROUS THAN AN HONEST PERSON. #wisdom #saying #humor #art #writing #philosophy #errtling #bookcafe #art-of-review #according-to-hoyle #law #gov #culture #society

Timon Thinking

Show me a person who eats just one potato chip and I'll show you a liar.
- An ancient proverb

#proverb #saying #diet #food #joke

Here's one for you.

In #German, there's a #Saying that is about having to brush a hedgehog, "einen Igel zu bürsten." It's means having tedious work to do, or is an excuse to not show up to some gathering because of the alleged hedgehog to brush.

But in the region I grow up, there's a very different meaning to that.
Because, the term brushing (so, "bürsten" but with an sh-sound instead of the usual s-sound) can be used to describe…having sex.
Thus, brushing a hedgehog can be some fun.

Sage. (AI Generated Image) #sage #sageadvice #wise #wiseadvice #saying #oldsaying #bigotry #endbigotry #homophobia #endhomophobia #racism #endracism #sexism #endsexism #evil #xenophobia #hatred #humanity #problems #prejudice #obstinate #unreasonable #humansuffering #pride #whitefragility #malefragility #straightmalefragility

An apple a day may keep the doctor away but that much apple jam a day keeps the doctor on speed dial. 🍎👩‍⚕️🤳

#saying #health #contrast #apple #sugar

There's a #German #Saying that is almost always translated with "thinking outside the box", and I think that's wrong because the saying literally goes "to look over one's own plate's edge."

So, a better translation would be "to look outside your own bubble", and that's what everyone should do from time to time.

Seriously, it's needed to see, and understand what other people in the world experience.
How they see things.
Especially your things.
Inside your bubble.
The world is changing.
Wake up.

"If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything"

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/nyregion/nyu-hospital-transgender-youth.html

#saying #DEI #healthcare #bullying #weakness #NYU

"All hat and no cattle" 🤠

*literally; not figuratively as that #saying conveys.

(shot Nov. 2023)

#photography #amateur #hat

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

ADAGE, n. A hoary-headed platitude that is kicked along the centuries until nothing is left of it but its clothes. A “saw” which has worn out its teeth on the human understanding.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Adage,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-03-05)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81811…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #adage #aphorism #banality #cliche #meaninglessness #platitude #proverb #receivedwisdom #saw #saying #truism

Oh my

#meme #memes #shitpost #tide #saying #idiom #pun #lol #detergent #laundry #joke

Today I learned that in 1866 people said, “Eat an apple on going to bed, and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread” as a variant of “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

(Assuming Wikipedia is accurate, of course.)

I love learning about old sayings like this and how they’ve changed over the years.

#Saying #Proverbs

"De gustibus non est disputandum."

Possibly my favorite saying. I wonder if Translate will be able to handle it?

#saying #wisdom #Maxim #Latin

"When all you are is hammered, everything tends to look like something you want to nail."

--Pete Hegseth

#aphorism #saying #NotQuite #USPol #idiot

People who live in stone houses should not throw glass. In general, throwing things inside of houses is a very bad idea. #morningThoughts #houses #saying #aphorism

All completed furniture assembly is easy after the fact.
- An ancient Swedish proverb. 🌈

#proverb #saying #Sweden #furniture #truth #wisdom #joke

“#Career-ending #internet #drama would have been slightly awkward lunch table #conversation if it had happened in the real #world” #reports are #saying

You can take the man out of his BMW but you can't take the BMW (privilege) out of the man.
- An old German saying.

#saying #proverb #joke #parking #privilege #Germany #Deutschland

Stay close to people who feel like sunshine

https://streetartutopia.com/2024/01/30/stay-close-to-people-who-feel-like-sunshine/

Imagine the love we could all have if we left our egos at the door poetry by boots

https://streetartutopia.com/2021/10/19/imagine-the-love-we-could-all-have-if-we-left-our-egos-at-the-door-poetry-by-boots/