My former boss (when I had a desk job) used to say a
pig with lipstick is still a pig...........
Of bad politics,,,,,The best thing you could do with that pig is just roast it
That dog won't run
There's a difference between a beehive hairdo and a case of bedhead
Real ladies keep their drawers in their dresser drawers and not on the clothes line.
When she thought we said something stupid, she would say, Would you say that again, I don't think I heard that right the first time)
Well there's a man you could be lonely with for the rest of your life (her gentile reference to a looser)
She was a perpetual fount of sayings.....We read them outloud at her retirement party and just cracked up.....Good friend and boss Bev, when she left, I had to start looking for the door, She was definitely wise and beautiful, funny and charming at the same time........
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Have you called her and told her what you told us? She would love to hear it. If you feel you can't tell her, let her know where to read your comments.
I've always thought the practice of having to attribute quotes to people was odd. Haven't most of us had the same ideas, or said the same things? There's just nobody writing them down and giving us credit for them.
But the simple life, alas, once you try to lead it, leads you into all this complication!"
--John Seymour, The Fat of the Land, 1960.
"The man, who, by his own and his family's labour, can provide a sufficiency of food and raiment and a comfortable dwelling place, is not a poor man."
--William Cobbett, Cottage Economy, 1826.
"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness." -- Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1787.
"I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." --Groucho Marx.
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." --Cary Grant, Arsenic and Old Lace.
"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. Gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it..."