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Famous Sayings That Changed Your Life

Dagan

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This could almost be considered a game, but I posted it here instead. Here's the gist: list a famous saying / old cliche' phrase and then tell how it literally and/or figuratively changed your life. I'll shall get it started.....

"Watch where you're going!" - I heard this a lot as a kid, and to this day, I seriously watch my feet most of the time I'm walking anywhere. Oops. Haha.
 
"Watch where you're going!" - I heard this a lot as a kid, and to this day, I seriously watch my feet most of the time I'm walking anywhere. Oops. Haha.
That was a big one for us too, and even more specifically - Watch where you put your feet! Not so important in cities but in rural areas there's a lot of things you can step on or in that are dangerous.

A huge one in Australia is a cultural thing - Fair go! This was very commonly used when I was a kid but you don't hear it so much these days, it's a call to make you stop and think about what you're saying or doing. There's a few colloquial variations on it too - Fair suck of the sauce bottle son!

There were so many common sayings that I grew up with, most of them English or Scottish with a few Aussie ones tacked on. There's two that had a huge impact on me as a kid, they both appealed to my sense of independence and my pride in my self sufficiency.

The first is from my great grandmother, an old Geordie woman:
Ah well. What we haven't got we can always do without.
When in a better mood she had another variation on that:
If we had some eggs we could have ham and eggs if we had some ham.

The other one is straight out practical advice from my father:
You can't live a white collar lifestyle on a blue collar income.
 

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