Motivational phrases & sayings

[a.twiddler]

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and...dead.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Never a truer word…

(P.S. The audio is NSFW)

View: https://youtu.be/HjPgdhRsGIQ

 

[Andy in Germany]

 

[Andy in Germany]

I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road.

They were clearly predestined to look... that time.

 

[Jameshow]

I had one task to do today and that was ride my bike, anything else is a bonus and not to be relied upon!!

 

[Punkawallah]

‘Hope is the first step on the road to disappiontment’.

 

[Gwylan]

Well, you can always tell a Yorkshireman.... but you can't tell him much

Distinguished by short arms and deeper pockets.

 

[Profpointy]

A bad worker always blames his tools. Unless he has no tools, in which case he's simply a bad worker.

I understand that originally the phrase had an extra layer of meaning because most craftsmen would have made their own tools, so by blaming poor tools they were criticising their own workmanship

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Early to rise, early to flop

 

[matticus]

I understand that originally the phrase had an extra layer of meaning because most craftsmen would have made their own tools, so by blaming poor tools they were criticising their own workmanship

I did not know this! Makes sense though ...

 

[PeteXXX]

I did not know this! Makes sense though ...

But who's tools did they use to make their tools, I wonder 🤔

 

[matticus]

But who's tools did they use to make their tools, I wonder 🤔

This sort of thing always reminds me of a marvelous League of Gentlemen scene about cleaning brushes.

 

[Drago]

Do the best you can, and people will still call you a loser.

 

[Profpointy]

But who's tools did they use to make their tools, I wonder 🤔

An apprentice had to start out by lapping a piece of flint and work his way up to more sophisticated tools. He'd have to smelt iron etc before making his first vernier caliper !

Joking aside, I did buy a rather lovely cased set of engineers' tools: calipers, squares, and so on, from an elderly gentleman who'd made them for his own use as an apprentice at Vickers

 

[rikki]

My grandfather told me that a blacksmith was the only person who could make all their own tools.