# Kinda-sorta wise quotes or sayings you made up **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 19, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256 "2015-08-19T12:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256/81 "2015-08-23T06:58:38Z")
One I use when describing someone who’s off in his own little world or otherwise not paying attention: “He’s gone out to lunch and stayed for Happy Hour.” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256/82 "2015-08-23T14:05:21Z")
> [@TheSeaOtter](#): > > “The problem is that we, the US, basically got a late alpha version of Democracy. We got it first, but it’s full of bugs, is missing a bunch of features, and has no working upgrade path.” Nitpick: Corsica had it earlier. Man named Paoli, after whom a suburb of Philadelphia was named, from which I infer that the Americans really did know about it. It was overthrown by a man named Bonaparte (who had a son named Napolean, who achieved a certain fame). But I really like your aphorism. My own contribution: A rising tide raises all yachts. (And swamps all those boats stuck in the mud.) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256/83 "2015-08-23T16:41:57Z")
“YODO! (You only die once)” For the risk adverse. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256/84 "2015-08-23T17:38:04Z")
When someone was applying praise to me at work a little too effusively: _Save your butter for your toast._ Of course it depends on how you say it. I tried not to make it ungracious. It was to my boss, and she wrote it on her Wall O’ Sayings. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256/85 "2015-08-23T18:05:08Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > When someone was applying praise to me at work a little too effusively: > > _Save your butter for your toast._ > > Of course it depends on how you say it. I tried not to make it ungracious. It was to my boss, and she wrote it on her Wall O’ Sayings. That reminds me of two others. To “feed someone shit and tell them it’s buttered toast,” meaning to tell someone a lie, especially an elaborate, long-winded lie to save your own skin. “You buttered your bread, now you have to lie in it,” a saturated fat variation on \*you made your bed, now you have to lie on it. \* ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2015, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kinda-sorta-wise-quotes-or-sayings-you-made-up/728256/86 "2015-08-24T01:44:30Z")
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