Sayings

A Few Common Sayings

Strike while the iron is hot! Sour Grapes Penny-wise, pound foolish Talk is cheap When the cat's away, the mice will play First come, first serve As ye sow so shall ye reap

Bäst att smida medan järnet är varmt De är sura, sa räven om rönnbären Genvägar är senvägar Stor i orden, liten på jorden När katten är borta, dansar råttorna på bordet Den som kommer först till kvarnen, får först mala Som man bäddar, får man ligga

Proverbs ordspråk

Sayings idiomatiska uttryck

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Politics

• "If you're not liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."
• One who is in debt is not free. "Den som är satt i skult är icke fri" said Göran Persson, Prime Minister of Sweden when you were born. Origin: Finance Minister Ernst Wigforss)
• Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
  Communism: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and the Government then gives you some milk.
  Fascism: You have two cows. You give them to the Government, and the Government then sells you some milk.
  Nazism: You have two cows. The Government takes both and shoots you..
  Capitalism: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Fakta upphör inte att existera, bara för att man inte bry sig om dem. - Aldous Huxley

Worth Thinking About

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz
• A fool and his money are soon parted. (Stupid people spend their money carelessly, or are tricked, and soon become poor.)

• “A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop speech when words become superfluous.”  – Ingrid Bergman

• A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
  Arabic version:
   En bra lögn kan gå från Bagdad till Konstantinopel medan sanningen letar efter sina sandaler.
• "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge." Att inse att man är okunnig är ett bra steg mot kunskap. -Disraeli
• Awesome ends with "ME" and ugly starts with "U"
• He who pays the piper pipblåsaren calls the tune.
  (The person who pays a musician can decide what music he wants to hear. And the person who pays for any service has the right to say what he wants.)
• Success has many parents. Failure is an orphan.

Haters are cowards. They back down. Therefore we must resist.

Haters are jealous. If you have nothing nice to say keep quiet.

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

When I get the urge to clean house, I lay down 'til it passes.

• “It’s not what happens on our worst day that defines us,” he said. “It’s what we do in response to it.” -Chris Hurst, Whose Girlfriend Was Fatally Shot on Air, Defeats N.R.A nyt NOV. 8, 2017

Platitudes

Wikipedia: Trite, meaningless, or prosaic statement, generally directed at quelling social, emotional, or cognitive unease. Present a shallow, unifying wisdom over a difficult topic. However, too general and overused to be anything more than undirected statements with ultimately little meaningful contribution towards a solution. Examples: "it is what it is", "meet in the middle", "busy as a bee", "method to my madness", "better late than never", "just be yourself", "burning the midnight oil", "strength is something you choose" and "nobody's perfect". Platitudes are generally a form of thought-terminating cliché