Let your hair down

Good one Bubble!

Must get mine trimmed

Kelly

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

That's a good one Angel!

My boss at Sears always seemed to say that at store meetings. We were convinced that our middle management  actually ran things between clerks and the front office  but his was a cautionary voice.   

Hi Rammel
A foot in the door

An introduction or way in to something, made so that progress may be made later.


Looked to see if there was an explanation for the say, it said:

The early uses of the term 'putting a foot in the door' are straightforward literal ones. It may just describe someone who steps over the threshold of a property, or someone putting a foot in the door in order to prevent it from closing and so continue a conversation.

But, we nowadays  use 'foot in the door' in a figurative sense, with a similar meaning to 'the thin end of the wedge'. It was the technique of jamming a foot in the door to prevent it closing, used by door-to-door salesmen and political canvassers, that gave us this figurative use of the term.

Kelly

Hi Rammel
Seeing 'the thin edge of the wedge' made me think that I used to hear that saying often when younger, not so much now.

I take it to mean, anything that is not seen as important in itself that might indicate the beginning of something much larger.

Say we bend the rules for someone a couple of times, it would be seen as the thin edge of the wedge.

kelly

From another discussion I used "The cheese stands alone". Kevin asked if it was a saying. Thinking about it I would say it qualifies - any comments?  I see it as saying that someone did something (or was) different enough from the others that he was separated from the group, as someone smelled like a cheese would be avoided - thus, "The cheese stands alone".

I'm working on the others.

Hi Rammel
It gets a yes from me!

kelly

#779 - "The cheese stands alone".   -   Already on list

Adding
868 - The fool speaks, the wise man listens
869 - At the drop of a hat
870 - Let your hair down
871 - Don't mistake activity for achievement.
872 - A foot in the door
873 - Bending the rules

Show me your friend and I will show you your character.
         Added as a sub to #369

Some good ones tonight.

874 - Still wet behind the ears.

There is practical knowledge and then there is book smarts.

Carl Jung said "I'm not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

Never heard these so I'll ask -

875 - There is practical knowledge and then there is book smarts.
876 - "I'm not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become."

They are ones you've heard, right? Not read in a book.

Practical knowledge is from my Dad, (Some people call it common sense);  and the Carl Jung quote is from my Psychology class at the University. It stuck in my mind as an affirmation.

Better little than too little

Hi Rammel
With 875

The saying I have heard is,

There is practical knowledge and there is book knowledge.

So it is a yes from me on 875.

Kelly

Around here, when frustrations abound, someone inevitably says....

If it's not one thing, it's another! 

(Sounds  little like Yogi Berra but I first heard it long before I ever heard of Yogi)

Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone

That's a poem that my grandmother used to recite in part to us when we were kids.  it's called "Solitude"

It was written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox and has 3 verses

Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

    LAUGH, and the world laughs with you;
    Weep, and you weep alone.
    For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
    But has trouble enough of it's own.
    Sing, and the hills will answer;
    Sigh, it is lost on the air.
    The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
    But shrink from voicing care.

    Rejoice, and men will seek you;
    Grieve, and they turn and go.
    They want full measure of all your pleasure,
    But they do not need your woe.
    Be glad, and your friends are many;
    Be sad, and you lose them all.
    There are none to decline your nectared wine,
    But alone you must drink life's gall.

    Feast, and your halls are crowded;
    Fast, and the world goes by.
    Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
    But no man can help you die.
    There is room in the halls of pleasure
    For a long and lordly train,
    But one by one we must all file on
    Through the narrow aisles of pain.

877 - Better little than too little
878 - If it's not one thing, it's another!


#116 - Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone

Yes, we humans are famous for taking bits and pieces until no one remembers the whole.

One example is "Curiosity killed the cat."  But what few remember is the remainder of the quote or saying was, "But satisfaction brought it back."

Quote from: angelface555 on May 02, 2016, 02:03:38 PM
Yes, we humans are famous for taking bits and pieces until no one remembers the whole.

One example is "Curiosity killed the cat."  But what few remember is the remainder of the quote or saying was, "But satisfaction brought it back."

I remember the second line, ---- and have used it.
    See #130

Perhaps someone should send me the list as I'm new to the thread.

Check your mail, Angel

Hi Rammel
Another Manx saying still used

How good to be forward, but how bad to be too forward'

kelly

How many pages long is that list?

Quote from: JaneS on May 02, 2016, 08:21:53 PM
How many pages long is that list?

It's just short of 900 lines in a WodPad RTF format. The number of pages (if printed) would depend on the font size you use.

It would be about 20 pages in an Arial 14 pt font.      I just open it on my puter when I use it.

The is a long list Rammel

the word long has made me think of a saying with the long in it!

Kelly