# Sayings you've found to be true. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 7, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493 "2008-09-07T15:52:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/101 "2008-09-11T21:44:00Z")
“Once a cheater, always a cheater” ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/102 "2008-09-11T22:22:24Z")
Someone who says, “You’re too good for me” will eventually prove it. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/103 "2008-09-11T22:51:35Z")
1. 20% of the people (whatever the situation) will cause 80% of the problems 2. Never complain about your problems to other people - 80% don’t care and have their own problems, _and 20% are actually glad to hear you’re having problems._ ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/104 "2008-09-11T23:43:00Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Someone who says, “You’re too good for me” will eventually prove it. Which fits in with : People will tell you who they are, it’s your job to listen. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/105 "2008-09-11T23:55:30Z")
Don’t start none, and there wont be none. Words to live by. Or get beaten within an inch of your life. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/106 "2008-09-12T00:15:04Z")
The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are one of these you can be sure it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry. -Ernest Hemingway, _A Farewell to Arms_ (1929) ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/107 "2008-09-12T01:11:07Z")
“Everybody wants to be black until the police come” --D.L. Hughley I don’t have personal experience with this, but it’s funny and rings true. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/108 "2008-09-12T01:21:33Z")
The early bird gets the worm. (True except for the early worm.) Life is like a box of chocolates-you never know what you’re going to get. - Forrest Gump. Easy come, easy go. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning. Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Don’t piss into the wind. You can put lipstick on a pig… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/109 "2008-09-12T05:28:21Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > The early bird gets the worm. (True except for the early worm.) The counter I’ve heard goes something like this: **The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.** ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/110 "2008-09-12T14:43:40Z")
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want. It is best to keep your mouth shut and let people thing you’re a fool than to open it and confirm it. ---
**Author:** ![haardvark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@haardvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haardvark)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/111 "2008-09-12T15:30:34Z")
**Hofstadter’s Law:** It always takes longer than you think, even when you account for Hofstadter’s Law. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/112 "2008-09-12T15:35:39Z")
The two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know. 2. ---
**Author:** ![Redfrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Redfrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redfrost)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/113 "2008-09-12T15:58:11Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > “Shit happens.” I modified this saying a few years back to deal with things and to shut up whiners. **“Shit happens, the you wipe your ass.”** Basically, you just have to learn to deal with things, even if that means learning to live with the stink. Another one I live: **“Life shows up everyday and doesn’t care what kind of mood you’re in.”** ---
**Author:** ![groo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecd19e/32.png) [@groo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/114 "2008-09-12T16:56:56Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > Which fits in with : People will tell you who they are, it’s your job to listen. I hadn’t heard that one; it has a very strong air of truthiness. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/115 "2008-09-12T20:08:49Z")
Cheap isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/116 "2008-09-12T21:14:49Z")
**There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch** ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/117 "2008-09-12T21:36:44Z")
One of my favorites: Don’t mud wrestle with pigs. You’ll just get dirty and the pigs like it. 🙂 J. ---
**Author:** ![mallocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@mallocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mallocks)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/118 "2008-09-12T23:36:37Z")
There’s an expression in Tolstoy’s _Anna Karenina_ regarding “the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes” which I’ve tried to keep in my head since I first read it. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/119 "2008-09-13T01:48:17Z")
> [@groo](#): > > I hadn’t heard that one; it has a very strong air of truthiness. I have the horrid feeling that it was a Dr Philism. It has that ‘true but sickly cute’ ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sayings-youve-found-to-be-true/462493/120 "2008-09-13T16:13:45Z")
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