# Favorite Words/Phrases/Quotes and Sayings **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248 "2019-08-26T03:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/41 "2019-08-27T13:41:56Z")
I still use a few nadsat phrases/Clockwork Orangisms, including “starry decreps” and “appendy-shitehouse”. ---
**Author:** ![Swampwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Swampwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swampwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/42 "2019-08-27T14:19:31Z")
From the band Gaelic Storm’s song _One More Day Above the Roses_: “It’s not the cough that carries you off; it’s the coffin they carry you off in.” I love both the sentiment and the turn of phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/43 "2019-08-27T14:26:30Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > [Shinola](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinola)was a shoe polish brand more than a century ago. No doubt, they sold brown shoe polish, hence the saying. Thanks – the saying makes more sense than I expected it would ! (Not implying that Americans are crazy; just that fine and “telling” expressions – anybody’s – are often nonsense ones.) ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/44 "2019-08-27T14:39:28Z")
Hoist by one’s own petard. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/45 "2019-08-27T19:11:41Z")
“Not my monkey, not my circus.” I think it’s Polish in origin? Anyway, I’ve only come across it once or twice, but I find it amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/46 "2019-08-27T20:53:42Z")
Re: “As the actress said to the bishop” > [@Sangahyando](#): > > (My bolding above): Alive and well in our family – in the UK, like yourself – I can promise you ! OK, so it’s you and me against the world! j ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/47 "2019-08-27T23:06:03Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > “Not my monkey, not my circus.” I think it’s Polish in origin? Anyway, I’ve only come across it once or twice, but I find it amusing. I like it. I’ve heard another variation,…“Not my pig, not my farm, not my problem.” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/48 "2019-08-28T01:10:19Z")
It _costs_ nothing to _pay_ attention. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/49 "2019-08-28T03:40:50Z")
In like Flynn! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/50 "2019-08-28T12:01:20Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I’ve always liked, and frequently relied on, “It never hurts to apologize, especially when you don’t mean it.” From Jim Bouton’s book, “Ball Four.” On the old “Newhart” series, Julia Duffy’s character would often toss out a totally insincere “Sorry sorry sorry!” Which my wife and I picked up on and still use with each other to this day. **FCM** already mentioned my favorite word, “callipygian”. (Having shapely buttocks) I think I stumbled across that one in a dictionary many years ago and it was immediately, as an old HS teacher of mine used to say, inscribed in the fleshy tablets of my brain. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/51 "2019-08-28T12:29:36Z")
> [@Royal\_Nonesutch](#): > > “You can’t just sit around and drink all day if you don’t start first thing in the morning!” I’ve uttered those words in all sincerity, while pouring Kaluha into my coffee and hitting a joint. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/52 "2019-08-28T15:31:26Z")
I need to start using this more: “Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc.” We gladly feast on those who would subdue us. Not just pretty words. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/53 "2019-08-28T16:13:33Z")
Whenever an inanimate object does something it shouldn’t, like falling off a shelf, I always say “Well, who asked you?” ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/54 "2019-08-28T16:49:51Z")
A saying from a friend of mine: Someone else’s success is not my failure. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/55 "2019-08-28T17:00:14Z")
“Clothes make a man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/56 "2019-08-28T17:24:33Z")
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” -Hunter Thompson “Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without understanding, it’s nothing. It’s just bibble-babble. It’s like a fart in a wind tunnel, folks.” -Harlan Ellison “You can’t win, you can’t break even, and you can’t get out of the fucking game.” -Harlan Ellison ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/57 "2019-08-28T17:54:46Z")
Lack of planning on your end does not constitute an emergency on mine. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/58 "2019-08-28T18:03:40Z")
“The light at the end of the tunnel is the light of an oncoming train.” - Robert Lowell ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/59 "2019-08-28T19:21:51Z")
“With friends like that, who needs enemas?” " . . .but you know what really filets my fish?.." said during a rant that I yelled at the whole room when my boss did / said some outrageous thing to me (over the phone). I was really worked up and then I saw one guy trying hard to stifle his laughter. It immediately diffused my tantrum. :o I like the words “mendacity” and “chicanery” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2019, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-words-phrases-quotes-and-sayings/839248/60 "2019-08-28T20:08:24Z")
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