[mikeb]

My grandma used to say (she was a country woman):

He who flies high, eventually lights in a cow pile.

I've personally seen this happen to a few of the people around us.

[68gtoMN]

From my dad:

• You can't always control what happens to you, but you can always control how you react to it
• Seek first to understand, only then seek to be understood.

[NBF823]

I can't say any of these changed my life. But I do remember them, they come from various people.

"Your so full of s*&t, your eyes are brown!"

"Only the sultan of Iran has custom cars."

"If your not breaking parts, your not making enough power."

"Most of us talk about things. The best of us talk about ideas. The worst of us talk about other people."

My favorite. "Son, you've got to be infamous."; from my Dad. I still don't know what he was talking about.

[mike nixon]

Go ahead and run, you'll come back to eat sometime.

[My442]

"It's got a 3/4 cam"

[BIGG-TATER]

I kind of had a slight temper problem in school and a old classmate that played on the football team said "That tempers going to get your a$$ whipped one day" rip T.A

[68FB400]

"The grass may be greener on the other side, but you've still got to cut the grass".

"If it was easy and fun they wouldn't call it Work"

"The definition of insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expect a different result"

[JLHarper]

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately it kills all of its students.

One of my favorites, and one we (men) can probably all relate to:

When all else fails , read the directions

[Bandit400]

Everything is ok in the end; if it's not ok it's not the end.

Control what you can control, or someone else will control it for you.

Relating to the age old looks vs. personality question:

Looks bring you in, personality makes you stay (I made that one up actually)

[pluto]

A former boss once told me...Bill...."there are no problems , only solutions". That's a John Lennon quote. I use that every day. Bill

[stimpy]

the one I use when people complain about there jobs ,

better to bitch about work ,than to bitch about standing at unemployment.

[poncho-mike]

I did very well in high school, but didn't go to college until two years later. These words of advice were given to me by the father of one of my girl friends about a year after I graduated:

Don't bring your a** around here again until you're in college. No daughter of mine is gonna marry a "could have been".

[Jeff Walker]

A former boss of mine had this in his office...

"Worry is a misuse of information"

[Icedad]

I read this somewher and I think of it alot when litlle things tick me off. It's helps to put the situation in perspective:
There's the lump in your oatmeal,
there's the lump in your throat,
there's the lump in your breast,
Don't treat them all the same.

[Transporter]

Can't remember where I came across this one but here goes.

Grandpa to his grandson; always marry a girl with small hands,

Grandson, why? because it always makes your peter look bigger.

[beemergary]

My Mother who never swore or had a bad thing to say about anybody would say. Worthless as the **** on a boar hog or would tell us kids I am going to beat you to a peak and knock of the peak which she never did. She was the Greatest

[ctgross]

From my dad, a building contractor who taught many how to really work and paid them an above average wage for it. "Rome wasn't built in a day...but I wasn't on that job".