# What do you think about this saying?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 13, 2024, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191 "2024-11-13T09:41:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/41 "2024-11-15T15:05:20Z")

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> [@Spiderman](#):
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> > [@DavidNRockies](#):
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> > You’ve got to start early if you want to be drunk all day.
> 
> I know that as, “You can’t drink all day unless you start in the morning.”

Yeah. Sorry. I think that’s it, but I was half in the bag when I made my post 😉

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/42 "2024-11-15T15:45:26Z")

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> [@Ponderoid](#):
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> Did the second pic not load for you, with “resting” climbers in full view?

D’oh!!1!

I did not zoom in far enough to recognize them as people. I thought they were just random rocks poking up through the snow. I was also sitting in the pre-dawn darkness with the screen brightness turned down to match.

Having that many of them right there in the near foreground is perfect.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/43 "2024-11-17T08:05:40Z")

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> [@Dereknocue67](#):
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> When people require inspiration, I place my hand on their shoulder and comfort them with:

I’ve lived a long time. And one thing I’ve learned is  
farts will always be funny.

My dad laid that one on one of my sons.

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**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/44 "2024-11-17T11:03:22Z")

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> [@Irishman](#):
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> > True friends leave footprints on your heart.

Thinking about it, this sounds a lot like someone half remembered Yeats:

> Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,  
> Enwrought with golden and silver light,  
> The blue and the dim and the dark cloths  
> Of night and light and the half-light,  
> I would spread the cloths under your feet:  
> But I, being poor, have only my dreams;  
> I have spread my dreams under your feet;  
> Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/45 "2024-11-19T22:14:40Z")

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It’s always darkest just before the piano lands on you. --Oliver Faltz

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/46 "2024-11-20T00:37:12Z")

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“An optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist believes this is true.”

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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/47 "2024-11-20T00:45:26Z")

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

- Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep.
- Know what to kiss… and when!
- Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do.
- Take heart amid the deepening gloom, that your dog is finally getting enough cheese.

From “Deteriorata,” by the National Lampoon

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9Axyqk5ERKQ/hqdefault.jpg "1972 National Lampoon - Deteriorata (Norman Rose, narrator / Melissa Manchester, vocal)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Axyqk5ERKQ)

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-about-this-saying/1010191/48 "2024-11-20T20:24:57Z")

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Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three rights make a left.

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