favorite saying you always go back to
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Lookin' rode hard and hung up wet.
WELL I'll be hog-tied to a tadpole! Everybody's the same color when you come outta the coal mines at the end of the day. (A literal and figurative one, I guess) -a couple of my favorite Appalachian-isms Crazier than a shithouse bat. You mess with the bull, you get the horns. DRIVE MUCH, DICKFACE? (in the car...road rage) Favorite Yiddish-isms: Totally fekakta/meshuggie/meshugeneh/mishegas Did you have a nice shufie? (I think it's really schluf, I say it to my baby after her nap, it's what my dad always said to me) Well, I ain't sitting shivvy for so-and-so (another bastardization, but my grandparents always said it this way, meaning they didn't feel sorry for someone -- I say it a lot too) |
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If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit next to me 
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Wait, there are Jewish people in Appalachia??? 
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Can someone explain what this means, exactly? As in, does it mean to live your life regardless of others ' actions? |
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Not that poster, but our family uses it as basically an equivalent of "mind your own business". Live [your life how you choose] and let [other people] live [their lives how they choose]. People spend way too much time thinking about, judging, and commenting on stuff that barely has anything to do with them if it has anything to do with them at all. It's ridiculous, exhausting, and unproductive. We have enough going on in our lives without worrying about someone else's life choices that have nothing to do with us. |
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"Nothing is more expensive than regarded." - when choosing between different priced options.
"I'm fucking this goat. You just hold his ass." - when someone tries to go from assisting to taking charge. |
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| ^^^ "Nothing is more expensive than regret." |
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Was over this line by the 3rd time I heard it 
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"With great power comes great responsibility"
"You get what you give" "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" (when trying to get a child to try a new food) If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail. |
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Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.
You can get a lot accomplished if you don't care who gets the credit. Your success should not depend on the failures of others. Stuff my mom says (translated from my native tongue...) 1) If you buy expensive- you cry once. But if buy cheap- you cry again and again. ( Bad quality products will not be dependable. Good quality product may be expensive but it will be durable and dependable) 2) The bite and the lick of the dog are both bad for your health. (Avoid toxic people because their enmity and friendship are both harmful) 3) Who will ride on this horse? Alexander the Great will, after he pays for it! ( Money makes the world go round) 4) Like cumin in the mouth of a camel. (Insufficient/ineffective effort or too little too late) 5) If not a burglar, why has he smeared black color on his face? (When evidence points at someone's guilt even when they are denying it) 6) Give a coin to the foolish man but not your advice. (You cannot reason with an illogical and stubborn man) |
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"Fair is not everyone getting the same thing, fair is everyone getting what they need to be successful. " I teach special ed and say this to classroom teachers at least once a year. I also use this one with my kids at home as an explaination when they question decisions we make that are different than ones we have made for a sib.
If you judge a fish and a monkey on the same skill, one will always fail. Again, said at work and at home. |
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| making the most of what you have, turns it into more. |
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| "Consider the source" (when someone is rude) |
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"Horseplay leads to tears"
"It's the relapse that will kill you." "Et up with the dumbass." (describing someone who is too stupid to live) |
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| The perfect is the enemy of the good. Sooo helpful. |