Distiiled Wisdom

[Laverna Lovett~]

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, and I'll eat your eyes."

hahaha i can't tell you how many times i've said something of that sort to unsuspecting people. along with this little phrase if someone asks you to come have dinner:
"i'm sorry, but i have a rare food allergy which manifests itself in the form of lycanthropy. another time, perhaps?"

but as for distilled wisdom, here's a rather good one from our old friend Bob Marley:
"The world will know peace when the power of love becomes greater than the love of power."

[rogue_designer]

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, and I'll eat your eyes."

Unfortunately - one of the phrases (in romany) meaning "I love you" literally translates as "I want to eat your eyes" - so be careful the audience on this one.

An old sig phrase I had floating around for a while:
"If I like you, I'll bleed for you. If I don't...well...best you don't think about that."

[Laverna Lovett~]

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, and I'll eat your eyes."

Unfortunately - one of the phrases (in romany) meaning "I love you" literally translates as "I want to eat your eyes" - so be careful the audience on this one.

An old sig phrase I had floating around for a while:
"If I like you, I'll bleed for you. If I don't...well...best you don't think about that."

i hope i never fall in love with someone who speaks romany, then.

[rogue_designer]

i hope i never fall in love with someone who speaks romany, then.

It sounds much prettier in the real thing. And of course, as with any idiom - the literal translation is rarely an indicator of the cultural meaning. If you think of the eyes as the window to the soul - its more a matter of wanting to share souls/understand deeply the person.

[Marrock]

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, and I'll eat your eyes."

Unfortunately - one of the phrases (in romany) meaning "I love you" literally translates as "I want to eat your eyes" - so be careful the audience on this one.

An old sig phrase I had floating around for a while:
"If I like you, I'll bleed for you. If I don't...well...best you don't think about that."

Ok, then how about "You had better be able to run faster scared than I can pissed off."

[Anders]

My grandpa once gave me a penny, saying, "Put that in your pocket.  If you never spend it, you'll never go broke."  I've long since lost the penny, but I'm carrying a dollar coin now with the same sentiment.

[Dr cornelius quack]

I'm the pyro operator on this gig, if you see me running, try to keep up.

[Laverna Lovett~]

i hope i never fall in love with someone who speaks romany, then.

It sounds much prettier in the real thing. And of course, as with any idiom - the literal translation is rarely an indicator of the cultural meaning. If you think of the eyes as the window to the soul - its more a matter of wanting to share souls/understand deeply the person.

so what they're really saying is that they want to eat your soul instead?

^_~

[Sir Nikolas of Vendigroth]

I'm the pyro operator on this gig, if you see me running, try to keep up.

I've got a T-shirt that says something similar.

Ironically, it's covered in holes from hot sparks.

[Marrock]

One of the tenets I live by is: "If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it."

[Owen_Stagg]

"When life throws you lemons, pick up a rock and return the favor."
~Me

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me — I can't get fooled again."
~Dubya

[Captain Lyerly]

My favorite:

"You can't fix stupid"


Chas.

[Prof. J. Odderwall Costom]

"You can't fix stupid"

Quite possibly one of the funniest lines ever uttered by any Comedian. ^.^

[The Kernel]

I'm the pyro operator on this gig, if you see me running, try to keep up.

I saw a member of a Royal Engineers EOD team member wearing a "T" shirt with a similar phrase
I wasn't sure whether or not to laugh

[JennyWren]

Never investigate anything dangerous with people who can run faster then you

an unknown mythos investigator

[karoshi]

"pointy end goes in the bad guy"

 

[karoshi]

as "kinky" can be defined as "using a feather", so can "perverse" can be defined as "using the chicken"

[Albrecht]

the term "too much" does not apply to the application of butter on top of potatoes.
 

[Marrock]

Never investigate anything dangerous with people who can run faster then you

an unknown mythos investigator

In the same vein as "I don't need to be faster than the bear, I just need to be faster than you."

[Von Gast]

There is always one more sheep determined to cross the road in front of you.

[JennyWren]

There is always one more sheep determined to cross the road in front of you.

Damm those pedestrians

[Albrecht]

I appologise if this is a repost:

P.T. Barnum "Everyday another sucker is born."

And in the vein of recent posts:

'Only the cat' never is.

[Dr. Oliver Cross]

Being dyslexic means never having to say you're syror.

[Sir. Silence]

Sorry if this has already been posted but this is one of my favourites:

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.....then find someone that life gave vodka and have a party.

Sir. Silence

[KinoOmega]

'Only the cat' never is.

The greatness is revealed.

Also,
^{You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.}-_{From an English Proverbs book}

^{All I want to be is someone that makes new things.}-_{From Greyscalegorilla Photo Blog}

^{The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.}-_{Havelock Ellis}