What is your favourite saying/phrase and why...

[seal!]

... like the ones in the c4 ad with the celebs, i think mine would be "don't let the b@stards grind you down" very powerful i believe.

[EssJay1]

Totally agree seal!

Along with - be nice to people on your way up, you might meet them on your way down.

[Clanad]

The one offered by seal! is seen here in the U.S. in theoriginal Latin... Illigitamus non carborundum... I'm sure my conjugation will draw complaints... hence, I simply offer the admonition to re-read the quote...

[Fish the Mod]

Everything will always be alright in the end, if it's not -it's not the end.

or

Success it measured not by what you have but how high you bounce after hitting rock bottom.

both taken from the book- The rise and fall of Tunewell, the employee's guide to management by Steve Byrne

[honuhuleia]

"How can you direct your feet on the ground when your eyes are forever towards the stars."

I rather like this saying. It reminds me to be realistic and attentive to what is happening now. I said this when I was with my sister and it stuck.

[mycatis]

"Humanity -Where the rising ape meets the falling angel"  Thank you Mr Pratchet

[Philtaz]

As an ex Serviceman I've always been fond of:

 We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. George Orwell.

Adversely, I like the motto on the doors to Alder Hey Children's Hospital:

The Child, First And Always.

[undercovers]

"if wishes were fishes"

[beetucks]

My favourite phrase is

Would some power the gifftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us ( Burns - To a Louse)

 How weird would it be to see how other people interpreted you - would you change?

[Clare A]

No need, beetucks, if the group of friends you have are so upfront and honest that you can't have any illusions about yourself!

[maggs]

 I like "Life's like that, so yer might as well stick a geranium in yer 'at and be 'appy.     Maggs